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Auerodendron pauciflorum
Plate 1 of 4. (c) Alcides L. Morales-Pérez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Alcides L. Morales-Pérez · via iNaturalist
IUCN CR · Critically endangered

Auerodendron pauciflorum

Auerodendron pauciflorum is a rare species of flowering plant in the Rhamnaceae family. One English language common name is turtlefat. It is endemic to Puerto Rico, where it is known from only one population in Isabela. At the time the plant was federally listed as an endangered species by the United States in 1994, only ten individual plants were known to exist. By 1997, there were 19 known specimens.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 118505.