Convolvulaceae
Jacquemontia

Jacquemontia havanensis (Jacq.) Urb.

First published in Symb. Antill. 3: 342 (1902)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Florida, SE. Mexico to Belize, Caribbean. It is a climbing herbaceous tree or liana and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

George R. Proctor (2012). Flora of the Cayman Isands (Second Edition). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Morphology General Habit
A slender, creeping or climbing, tangled, subwoody vine, the young stems and leaves puberulous; leaves sublinear to narrowly or broadly oblong, mostly 5–25 mm long, the apex acute or notched with a mucro
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence 1–few-flowered; sepals ca. 2 mm long; corolla white, ca. 1 cm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Capsules 3–4 mm long; seeds ovoid, narrowly marginate, rough.
Distribution
Cayman Islands. Florida, West Indies, Yucatan, and the Turneffe Islands of Belize.
Ecology
Frequent in dry rocky thickets and scrublands.
[Cayman]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0