PLANTS Profile for Crescentia portoricensis (higuero de sierra)

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Crescentia portoricensis Britton
higuero de sierra

Symbol:

CRPO6

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Bignoniaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Tree
Shrub

Native Status:

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Distribution:
Crescentia portoricensis Britton


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Related Taxa:
Crescentia portoricensis Britton

View 29 genera in Bignoniaceae, 4 species in Crescentia

Classification:
Crescentia portoricensis Britton

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Asteridae
Order	Scrophulariales
Family	Bignoniaceae – Trumpet-creeper family
Genus	Crescentia L. – crescentia
Species	Crescentia portoricensis Britton – higuero de sierra

Threatened and Endangered Information:
Crescentia portoricensis Britton

This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete protected plant list for that location.

Unites States:
higuero de sierra		Endangered
Puerto Rico:
		Endangered

More Accounts and Images:
Crescentia portoricensis Britton

View species account from The Center for Plant Conservation.

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 34334.

Time Generated: 09/23/2008 10:15 AM MDT