Schoepfia multiflora

Schoepfia multiflora
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Santalales
Family:	Schoepfiaceae
Genus:	Schoepfia
Species:	S. multiflora
Binomial name
Schoepfia multiflora Urb.[2]

Schoepfia multiflora is a species of flowering plant in the Schoepfiaceae family.[3] It is a smallish tree, growing six to eight metres tall, exceptionally to ten metres.[4] It is endemic to Jamaica,[1] where it grows on rocky limestone in the woodlands of the central region.[4]

Schoepfia multiflora was first described as a new species by Ignatz Urban in the 1907 volume of the Symbolae Antillanae.[5]

In the 1984 key by Hermann Otto Sleumer, Schoepfia multiflora, S. harrisii and S. vacciniifolia are the only American Schoepfia species which have some or all flowers possessing tiny pedicels - all other species have sessile flowers which sit directly on top of the short peduncles. S. harrisii is also a Jamaican endemic, whereas S. vacciniifolia is a species from Central America.[4]

References

1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). "Schoepfia multiflora". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1998: e.T36036A9976466. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T36036A9976466.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
2. "Schoepfia multiflora". International Plant Names Index. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries and Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
3. "Schoepfia multiflora Urb.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 29 December 2021
4. Sleumer, Hermann Otto (15 May 1984). "Olacaceae". Flora Neotropica Monographs. 38: 21, 22. JSTOR 4393778.
5. Urban, Ignatz (20 May 1907). "Olacaceae". Symbolae Antillanae, seu, Fundamenta florae Indiae Occidentalis (in German and Latin). 5 (2): 184, 185. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.144. Retrieved 29 December 2021.