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Eugenia procera (Sw.) Poir. (in J.B.A.P.M. de Lamarck, Encycl. Suppl. 2: 129. 1811.) Localities: West Indies (native), Lesser Antilles (native) [Antigua, Barbados, Martinique, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Martin, ], Greater Antilles [ Cuba (native), Hispaniola (native)[ Dominican Republic, Gonave, Haiti, Tortue,], Puerto Rico (native)[ Santiago,], Virgin Islands (native) (Guana Islands, Jost van Dyke, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola, ) ], South America (native), Common Names: Arbre à petites feuilles (Haiti), Arraiján (Dominican Republic), Hoja menuda (Puerto Rico), Synonyms: Myrtus brachystemon DC. (Prodr. 3: 240. 1828.), Myrtus procera Sw. (Prodr. 77. 1788.), Citations:1). Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581. 2). Barker, H.D. and W.S. Dardeau. 1930. La Flore d'Haiti. Port-au-Prince. 456 pp. 3). Britton, N.L. and P. Wilson. 1923-1926. Botany of Porto Rico and Virgin Islands. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and Virgin Islands. New York Academy of Sciences, New York. 4). Flora of Trinidad and Tobago: This flora was published in many parts with many authors. There is no overall editor. R. O. Williams was author of the first treatment and of many others. 5). Howard, R.A. 1974-1989. Flora of the Lesser Antilles. Vols. 1-6. Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. 6). León, F., 1946; León, F. and H. Alain, 1951-1957. Flora de Cuba. Habana. 7). Liogier, A.H. 1982-2000. La flora de la Española. Univ. Central de Este, San Pedro de Macoris. Taller, República Dominicana. 8). Liogier, A.H. 1985-1997. Descriptive Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands. Spermatophyta. Vols. 1-5. Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. 9). Liogier, A.H. 2000. Diccionario botánico de nombres vulgares de la Espanola. Jardin Botanico Nacional Dr. Rafael Ma. Moscoso, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana. 10). Otero, J.I., R.A. Toro and Pagán de Otero. 1945. Catalogo de los nombres vulgares y científicos de algunas plantas puertorriqueñas. 2nd. ed. Universidad de Puerto Rico. 11). Urban, I. 1898-1928. Symbolae Antillanae, Vol. 1-9. Berlin, Leipzig, Germany. 12). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 2008. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Website: apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do Last edited 19 Nov 09 |