''Psychotria ligustrifolia'', the Bahama wild coffee,
is a species of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
in the family
Rubiaceae. It is native to
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
,
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated ...
, and the
Bahamas
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to ...
.
Synonyms
* ''Psychotria bahamensis''
See also
*
Bahamian dry forests
The Bahamian dry forests are a tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion in the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, covering an area of . They are found on much of the northern Bahamas, including Andros, Abaco, and Grand Bah ...
References
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants* Derek Burch, Richard P. Wunderlin and Daniel B. Ward, "Contributions to the Flora of Florida: 9, Psychotria (Rubiaceae)", ''Castanea'', Vol. 40, No. 4 (Dec., 1975), pp. 273–279.
ligustrifolia
Flora of the Bahamas
Flora of Florida
Flora of Puerto Rico
Vulnerable plants
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