Swartzia rediviva

Swartzia rediviva is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae. [1] It is found only in Suriname.

Swartzia rediviva
preserved specimen at The New York Botanical Garden
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Rosids
Order:
Fabales
Family:
Fabaceae
Genus:
Swartzia
Species:
S. rediviva
Binomial name
Swartzia rediviva

Description

It was first described by Richard Sumner Cowan in 1973. The first description is based on a specimen collected near the banks of the left Coppename River. Publication of this description was accelerated ahead of a set of the publication other taxa descriptions, to facilitate its inclusion into the imminent release of the book Flora of Suriname. [2].

Range

This species is said to be only found in Suriname. GBIF, which is an aggregation service of observational data on species, has no observations so far [3].

References
  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1998). "Swartzia rediviva". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 1998: e.T39048A10164577. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T39048A10164577.en. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  2. A new Swartzia from Suriname. Phytologia 26: 279-280. 44. BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13163084#page/293/mode/1up
  3. Swartzia rediviva R.S.Cowan in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-06-15.



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