Rachicallis americana

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Rachicallis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Cinchonoideae
Tribe: Rondeletieae
Genus: Rachicallis
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Species:
R. americana
Binomial name
Rachicallis americana
Synonyms[2]
  • Buchnera rupestris (Sw.) Sw.
  • Hedyotis americana Jacq. (1760)
  • Hedyotis rupestris Sw.
  • Oldenlandia rupestris (Sw.) Lam.
  • Rachicallis maritima K.Schum.
  • Rachicallis rupestris (Sw.) DC.

Rachicallis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae.[3] It includes a single species, Rachicallis americana, a shrub native to southeastern Mexico and to Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean.[2]

The species was first described as Hedyotis americana by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in 1760. In 1893 A. S. Hitchcock placed the species in genus Rachicallis as R. americana.[2]

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