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Ormosia jamaicensis Urb.

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HIGHER TAXON: Sophoreae

GENUS: Ormosia Jacks.

Ormosia jamaicensis Urb. [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Nickel [1555]; Red Nickel [1056]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Caribbean
Jamaica (N) [1056, 1555, 1565, 1571]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1056, 1555, 1571] ; Distribution Map [1555] ; Illustration [1555]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Insufficiently known ; Habit: Tree ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL, 1993 Zarucchi JL

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1056.

  Adams, C.D., 1972
    Flowering Plants of Jamaica Univ. West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

1555.

  Rudd, V.E., 1965
    Contr.U.S.Natl.Herb.32(5):279-384American Spp. Ormosia

1565.

  Rudd, V.E., 1969
    Phytologia 18(6):337-338 Ormosia schunkei, New Sp. from Peru

1571.

  Rudd, V.E., 1972
    N. Amer. Fl. Ser. II(7):1-53 Leguminosae

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