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Cordia sebestena (Geranium Tree; Geiger Tree)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Cordia sebestena is a species of flowering plant in the borage family, Boraginaceae, that is native to the American tropics. It ranges from southern Florida in the United States and The Bahamas southwards throughout Central America and the Greater Antilles. Common names include siricote or kopté (Mayan) in 19th Century northern Yucatán, scarlet cordia on Jamaica, and Geiger tree (after Key West wrecker John Geiger) in Florida.
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Infraspecies

Cordia sebestena var. caymanensis
Cordia sebestena var. sebestena

Predators

Chlorostilbon mellisugus (Blue-tailed Emerald)[1]
Coereba flaveola (Bananaquit)[2]
Doricha eliza (Mexican Sheartail)[1]
Xiphidiopicus percussus (Cuban Green Woodpecker)[1]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0