Jupunba Oxyphyllidia
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''Jupunba oxyphyllidia'' is a species of
plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...
in the family
Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ...
. It is a tree which grows up to 20 meters tall. It is
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to central
Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...
, where it grows in humid montane primary forests, including cloud forests, at approximately 1,900 to 2100 meters elevation. The species is rare with a limited range, and it is subject to
habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss or habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species. The organisms once living there have either moved elsewhere, or are dead, leading to a decrease ...
and fragmentation. It is assessed as
critically endangered An IUCN Red List critically endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. As of December 2023, of t ...
by the
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.


References

oxyphyllidia Endemic flora of Honduras Flora of the Central American montane forests Taxa named by Rupert Charles Barneby Taxa named by James Walter Grimes Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Mimosoideae-stub