Bactris jamaicana

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Bactris jamaicana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Genus: Bactris
Species: B. jamaicana
Binomial name
Bactris jamaicana
L. H. Bailey

Bactris jamaicana is a species of palm endemic to Jamaica.

According to Salzman and Judd B. jamaicana forms a clade with B. plumeriana and B. cubensis, the other Greater Antillean Bactris species.

[edit] References

Salzman V.T. and W.S. Judd. 1995. A revision of the Greater Antillean species of Bactris (Bactridinae: Arecaceae). Brittonia 47 (4): 345-371.


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