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Portlandia (plant)

genus of plants

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 9, 2023
Entity authorityQ133840 ↗
Source-derived summary

Portlandia is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. Members of the genus are endemic to Jamaica.

Species

As of March 2023, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:

Portlandia coccinea Sw.

Portlandia grandiflora L.

Portlandia harrisii Britton

Portlandia microsepala Urb.

Portlandia platantha Hook.f.

Portlandia proctorii (Aiello) Delprete

Formerly placed here

Portlandia albiflora Britton & Harris ex Standl. = Portlandia platantha Hook.f.

Portlandia domingensis Britton = Cubanola domingensis (Britton) Aiello

Portlandia hexandra Jacq. = Coutarea hexandra (Jacq.) K.Schum.

Portlandia pterosperma S.Watson = Hintonia latiflora (DC.) Bullock

Portlandia speciosa Baill.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Portlandia (plant)” as genus of plants. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Portlandia, plant and genus can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as genus of plants. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 9, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q133840. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Portlandia (plant)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.