Rubiaceae
Strumpfia

Strumpfia maritima Jacq.

First published in Enum. Syst. Pl.: 28 (1760)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Florida, SE. Mexico, Caribbean to N. Venezuela. It is a subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/56503729/56503810

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

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
Low, flat-topped or mound-like shrub mostly less than 1 m tall, the young branches finely and densely white-tomentose; leaves sessile, linear, 1–2.5 cm long, 1–3 mm broad with revolute margins, puberulous on the upper side and densely white-tomentellous beneath
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Racemes shorter than the leaves, few-flowered; corolla pink, the tube ca. 1.5 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Drupes globose, white, ca. 3 mm in diameter.
Distribution
Cayman Islands. Florida, the West Indies and Yucatan.
Ecology
In dry rocky scrublands usually near the sea.
[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

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. 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 2024. 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