Jacquinia

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Jacquinia - sometimes placed in family Myrsinaceae

dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

family Theophrastaceae, Theophrastaceae - family of mainly tropical American trees and shrubs similar to those of the Myrsinaceae; often included in the Myrsinaceae

bracelet wood, Jacquinia armillaris - small West Indian shrub or tree with hard glossy seeds patterned yellow and brown that are used to make bracelets

barbasco, Jacquinia keyensis, joewood - West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood

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Relictos de Roseodendron chryseum (Blake) bosques Miranda Jacquinia aristata Jacq.

Diferencias entre actores sociales en el conocimiento y la percepcion de la vegetacion de la cuenca de la Cienaga de la Virgen (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia)

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Species without champs

(1,4,5), 7) Hintonia octomera * (Hemsl.) Bullock (1,2,3,4), 8) Jacquinia flammea * Millsp.

Identifying priority areas for conservation in Mexican tropical deciduous forest based on tree species/Identificacion de areas prioritarias para la conservacion del bosque tropical caducifolio en Mexico basada en especies arboreas/Identificacao das areas prioritarias para a conservacao do bosque tropical caducifolio no Mexico baseada em especies arboreas

For example Jacquinia pungens (Myrsinaceae), a shrub from the dry seasonal forests of Costa Rica, loses its leaves during the wet period and produces new ones in the dry season, apparently synchronized to the light conditions; it drops its leaves when the forest canopy closes, growing new ones when exposed to the abundant light penetrating the partly defoliated and relatively open upper canopy.

2 Life in monsoon forests

San Juanico - Jacquinia Pungens-Cof Washing the face with an infusion of the flowers soothes dizziness.