Plant Life of the Socorro Islands
Family: Poaceae
Species name: Aristida adscensionis
Endemic: No
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Glumes markedly unequal, the first 5-7 mm long, the second 7-10 mm long; plants annual, branching at most lower nodes.
Family: Fabaceae
Species name: Canavalia rosea
Endemic: No
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Plants prostrate or twining; stamens not dimorphic. Leaves orbicular, the apex rounded; fruit straight, more than 10 cm long and 2 cm wide. Common on shore at Cabo Middleton, the only place it has been collected.
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Species name: Chamaesyce anthonyi
Endemic: Yes
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Plants prostrate or twining; stamens not dimorphic. Leaves orbicular, the apex rounded; fruit straight, more than 10 cm long and 2 cm wide. Common on shore at Cabo Middleton, the only place it has been collected.
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Species name: Croton masonii
Endemic: Yes
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Pistillate flowers not subtended by a foliaceous bract; pubescence stellate. Dominant and often forming pure stands on hillsides and alluvial fans near shore at south end, extending upward to about 250 m.
Family: Orchidaceae
Species name: Epidendrum nitens
Endemic: No
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Stems not pseudobulbous; racemes longer, to 4-14 cm long, bearing more than 5 flowers; flowers green or yellowish-green; petals and lip 1 cm long or less; capsules 1-2 cm long. Lateral sepals prominently keeled at their apexes lip slightly contracted in the middle of each side.
Family: Asteraceae
Species name: Erigeron socorrensis
Endemic: Yes
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Leaves oblianceolate; heads paniculate, small, the disks less than 5 mm wide. This is a weak shrub 3 to 15 dm tall with stems to 1.5 cm thick at the base.
Family: Moraceae
Species name: Ficus cotinifolia
Endemic: No
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Braches prodcuing aerial roots that may reach the ground to from econdary trunks; terminal buds enclosed in large stipules; flowers borne on the inside of a globose, fleshy receptacle, the fig.
Species name: Ficus cotinifolia
Endemic: No
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Braches prodcuing aerial roots that may reach the ground to from econdary trunks; terminal buds enclosed in large stipules; flowers borne on the inside of a globose, fleshy receptacle, the fig.
Family: Rubiaceae
Species name: Guettarda insularis
Endemic: Yes
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Leaves suborbicular to oval or ovate; leaf venation prominent, definitely raised on the undersidel stipules deciduous; inflorescence a cyme.
Family: Hypericaceae
Species name: Hypericum eastwoodianum
Endemic: Yes
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Petals free, bright yellow; stamens more than 10; fruit a many-seeded capsule. Occasional in rocky places from shore to summit, more common in upper half of island.
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Species name: Linaria canadensis texana
Endemic: No
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Leaves entire, glabrous, at least the lower ones opposite; corolla with a spreading upper lip and well-developed lower lip, spurred at base.
Family: Sabiaceae
Species name: Meliosma nesites
Endemic: Yes
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Fruit a berry or drupe. Inflorescence an open panicle; 3 outer petals considerably larger than inner 2; stamens 2, opposite 2 petals.
Family: Piperaceae
Species name: Peperomia socorronis
Endemic: Yes
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Leaves alternate, oblong to elliptic, 2-6 cm long. On tree trunks in upper part of island around 500-900 m, more common toward upper end of range but genearlly not as common.
Species name: Peperomia socorronis
Endemic: Yes
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Leaves alternate, oblong to elliptic, 2-6 cm long. On tree trunks in upper part of island around 500-900 m, more common toward upper end of range but genearlly not as common.
Family: Fabaceae
Species name: Rhynchosia minima
Endemic: No
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Leaflets and calyx with yellowish gland-dots; fruit less than 2 cm long. Local on hillside at Bahia Academy; uncommon in disturbed areas north of Huerta Grande and north of Bahia Braithwaite.
Family: Lamiaceae
Species name: Salvia pseudomisella
Endemic: Yes
IUCN Classification: Not evaluated
Plants suffrutescent; corolla light blue; anther connectives straight, with a small tooth on the upper side near the middle; upper calyx lip rounded to retuse with mucro short to subobsolete.