''Abarema alexandri'' 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 ...
of the genus ''
Abarema
''Abarema'' is a neotropical genus of large trees in the family ( Fabaceae). They grow from Mexico ('' Abarema idiopoda'') to Bolivia. Most of the species can be found in the Amazon Basin and the Guyana Highlands. They have a deep-green fernli ...
'' in the family
.
[Barneby & Grimes (1996), ILDIS (2005)] It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to
Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...
, where it can be found in woodland or thicket on limestone soils.
References
* (1996): Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earring: A generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part I. ''Abarema, Albizia'', and Allies. ''Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden'' 74(1): 1–292.
* (2005)
Genus ''Abarema'' Version 10.01, November 2005. Retrieved 2008-MAR-31.
alexandri
Endemic flora of Jamaica
Taxa named by James Walter Grimes
Taxa named by Rupert Charles Barneby
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
{{Mimosoideae-stub