Convolvulus jamaicensis Jacq.

First published in Observ. Bot. 3: 6 (1768)
This name is a synonym of Jacquemontia havanensis

POWO follows these authorities in synonymising this name:

  • Britton, N. (1918). Flora of Bermuda: 1-585. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. [Cited as Jacquemontia jamaicensis.]
  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne. [Cited as Jacquemontia havanensis.]
  • Gray, A. in Gray, A. (1886). CNV, supplement, in Syn. Fl. N. Amer. Ed. 2. Synoptical Flora of North America, edit. 1: 433-436. [Cited as Convolvulus havanensis.]
  • Leon, H. & Alain, H. in Leon, H. (1957). Convolvulaceae. Flora de Cuba 4: 218-248. Cultural S. A., La Habana. [Cited as Jacquemontia jamaicensis.]
  • Liogier, A.H. in Liogier, A. H. (1994). Convolvulaceae. La flora de la Española 6: 49-114. Universidad Central del Este. [Cited as Jacquemontia havanensis.]
  • Powell, Dulcie A. (1979). The Convolvulaceae of the Lesser Antilles. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 60: 219-271. [Cited as Jacquemontia havanensis.]
  • Robertson, K.R. in Robertson, K.R. (1971 PhD thesis). A revision of the genus Jacquemontia (Convolvulaceae) in North and Central America and the West Indies.: 1-285. [Cited as Jacquemontia havanensis.]

This name was accepted following an alternative taxonomy by these authorities:

  • Eggers, H.F.A. in Eggers, H.F.A. (1879). Convolvulaceae. The flora of St Croix and the Virgin Islands: 70-73. US Government Printing Office. [Cited as Convolvulus jamaicensis.]
  • Grisebach, A.H.R. in Grisebach, A. H. R. (1862). Convolvulaceae. Flora of the British West Indian Isands: 466-476. Lovell Reeve. [Cited as Convolvulus jamaicensis.]

Other Data

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Sources

  • 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/
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