Jacquinia arboreaVahl

WFO wfo-0000355247 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Jacquinia arborea, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. a Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-07 / obs. 195783046
Jacquinia arborea, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. b Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195783223
Jacquinia arborea, photographed by ritirene
fig. c ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153395603

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Jacquinia arborea is native: Mexico Southeast, Aruba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is. Mexico SoutheastDominican RepublicHondurasJamaicaPuerto RicoTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela ArubaLeeward Is.Netherlands AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Jacquinia arborea, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Aruba ARU SOUTHERN AMERICA
Dominican Republic DOM
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Puerto Rico PUE
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Southeast MXT NORTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Chrysophyllum barbasco Loefl. ex DC.
  • Jacquinia armillaris var. arborea (Vahl) Griseb.
  • Jacquinia barbasco Mez
  • Jacquinia berteroi var. venosa Mez

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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