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Taxon: Portlandia grandiflora L.

 
Genus: Portlandia
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Cinchonoideae
Tribe: Chiococceae
Nomen number: 29447
Place of publication: Syst. nat. ed. 10, 2:928. 1759
Link to protologue:
Typification: View in Linnean Typification Project
Name Verified on: 14-Feb-2005 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions: 0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental;

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Southern America
    • CARIBBEAN: Jamaica


    Cultivated (also cult. in tropics)

References:

  1. Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica
  2. Andersson, L. 1992. A provisional checklist of neotropical Rubiaceae. Scripta Botanica 1.
  3. Llamas, K. A. 2003. Tropical flowering plants: a guide to identification and cultivation

Check other web resources for Portlandia grandiflora L. :

  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  • PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=29447. Accessed 6 July 2024.