Abarema alexandri explained

Abarema alexandri is a species of plant of the genus Abarema in the family Fabaceae.^[1] It is endemic to Jamaica, where it can be found in woodland or thicket on limestone soils.

Taxonomy

It was first described in 1900 as Pithecellobium jupunba var. alexandri by Ignatz Urban,^{[2] [3]} who redescribed it in 1908 as Pithecellobium alexandri.^[4] The name accepted for this species by most authorities^{[5] [6] [7]} is Jupunba alexandri (Urb.) Britton & Rose, a name given in 1928 by the American botanists, Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose.^[8]

References

• (1996): Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earring: A generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part I. Abarema, Albizia, and Allies. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 74(1): 1–292.
• (2005): Genus Abarema. Version 10.01, November 2005. Retrieved 2008-MAR-31.

Notes and References

1. Barneby & Grimes (1996), ILDIS (2005)
2. Web site: Jupunba alexandri (Urb.) Britton & Rose Plants of the World Online Kew Science . 2024-10-19 . Plants of the World Online . en.
3. Urban, I.. Ignatz Urban. 1900. Symbolae Antillanae,seu, Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis (Symb. Antill.). 2. 258. Pithecellobium jupunba var. alexandri.
4. Urban, I.. Ignatz Urban. Pithecellobium alexandri. Symbolae Antillanae,seu, Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis (Symb. Antill.). 5. 358 . 1908 .
5. Web site: Jupunba alexandri (Urb.) Britton & Rose COL . 2024-10-19 . www.catalogueoflife.org.
6. Web site: taxonomy . Taxonomy browser (Jupunba alexandri) . 2024-10-19 . www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
7. Web site: Jupunba alexandri (Urb.) Britton & Rose . 2024-10-19 . www.gbif.org . en.
8. Jupunba alexandri. N.L.Britton & al. . North American flora (N. Amer. Fl.). 23. 24 . 1928.