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Alfilerillo

Machaonia woodburyana

Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Leeward Is. (St. John, Virgin Gorda)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Machaonia woodburyana, the alfilerillo, is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands and Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.

Where it grows

The natural habitats of Machaonia woodburyana are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Other Machaonia plants

Allenanthus · Machaonia erythrocarpa · Machaonia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Machaonia woodburyana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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