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Schoepfia harrisii

Family
Schoepfiaceae (Schoepfi family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
Jamaica
Climate
wet tropical

About

Schoepfia harrisii is a species of flowering plant in the Schoepfiaceae family. It is a small tree or shrub, growing two to five metres tall. It is endemic to Jamaica, where it is only known to occur in the parishes of Trelawny and Clarendon, in what is known as Cockpit Country, a region of many steep, rounded, limestone hills, shaped like an egg-carton. Here it grows on crags in moist woodland, between 600 and 900m in elevation.

Where it grows

It is endemic to Jamaica, where it is only known to occur in two parishes, southernmost Trelawny and northern Clarendon, in what is known as Cockpit Country. Specifically, it occurs in scattered locations in Cockpit Country around the northwestern perimeter of the central mountains.

Other Schoepfia plants

Arana · Schoepfia californica · Schoepfia multiflora · Schoepfia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Schoepfia harrisii 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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