Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Chacachacare Island, Trinidad and Tobago

Authors

  • C. D. Adams Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, London, England
  • Yasmin S. Baksh-Comeau National Herbarium, U.W.I., St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Keywords:

Chacachacare Island, Native, Endemic, New records, Families, Species

Abstract

Chacachacare Island is the most westerly of the islands off the north-west peninsula of the island of Trinidad. Most of the species listed are native; of these Coccoloba nigrescens, Combretum trinitense, Lantana lockharti are endemic to Trinidad. Three species, Maytenus sp., Schaefferia frutescens and Bourreria cumanensis, are new records for the island but unknown on the main islands of Trinidad and /or Tobago. This checklist records 244 species in 73 families.

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Published

2005-12-31

Issue

Living World 2005

Section

Research Papers