Jupunba alexandri var. troyana

Abarema alexandri var. troyana is a variety of the legume J. alexandri in the family Fabaceae.^[3] It is a tree endemic to Jamaica, where it can be found in woodland or thicket on limestone soils.

Jupunba alexandri var. troyana
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Clade:	Mimosoid clade
Genus:	Jupunba
Species:	J. alexandri
Variety:	J. a. var. troyana
Trinomial name
Jupunba alexandri var. troyana (Urb.) M.V.B.Soares, M.P.Morim & Iganci
Synonyms[2]
Abarema alexandri var. troyana (Urb.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes Jupunba troyana (Urb.) Britton & Rose Pithecellobium alexandri var. troyanum Urb.

The plant was first described as Pithecellobium alexandri var. troyanum by Ignatz Urban in 1908. In 1996 Rupert Charles Barneby and James Walter Grimes move the variety and its parent species to genus Abarema as Aberema alexandri var. troyana. In 2021 Marcos Vinicius Batista Soares, Marli Pires Morim, and João Ricardo Vieira Iganci moved the species to genus Jupunba as Jupunba alexandri var. troyana.^[2]