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Buxus vahlii Baill.

Vahl's boxwood; Vahl's box

Buxaceae · Leeward Is. AB Ant, Puerto Rico

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Summary

Buxus vahlii, or Vahl's boxwood, is a rare species of plant in the boxwood family. It is native to Puerto Rico and St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where it is known from no more than four populations in total. It has probably never been very common, but its distribution has been reduced by deforestation and other human disturbance of its habitat. At the time it was listed as an endangered species of the United States in 1985, it was thought to be endemic to Puerto Rico. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Buxus vahlii", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Buxus

Buxus is a genus of about seventy species in the family Buxaceae. Common names include box and boxwood.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Buxus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 17 of the 19 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeLeeward Is. AB Ant, Puerto Rico · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker18.417, -66.975 · in the densest population, 16 records (84% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 19 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 12 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 51 km away. 4 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 17 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 19 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Marina, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Kurt Miller, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (4).

Other Buxus 11 in the reference

Buxus balearica Buxus balearica Balearic box Photo: CC BY, Yves BasBuxus bodinieri Buxus bodinieri Buxaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, CamphoraBuxus harlandii Buxus harlandii Harland's boxwood Photo: CC0, author not statedBuxus liukiuensis Buxus liukiuensis Liukiu boxwood Photo: CC BY, 如此甚好Buxus macowanii Buxus macowanii Cape Box Photo: CC BY-SA, Dr. Johann C. KnobelBuxus microphylla Buxus microphylla Littleleaf boxwood Photo: CC BY, Marco MussitaBuxus natalensis Buxus natalensis Box Wattle Photo: CC BY-SA, Rosemary Harrison Buxus rugulosa Buxaceae Buxus sempervirens Buxus sempervirens Box Photo: CC BY, Louis AuregliaBuxus sinica Buxus sinica Chinese boxwood Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te HsuBuxus wallichiana Buxus wallichiana Buxaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, MPF

Names & registers

Also known as Buxus cruciata; Crantzia laevigata; Crantzia solanderi; Tricera laevigata var. santicrusis; Tricera vahlii. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Buxaceae
Described by
Baill.
Native to
Leeward Is. AB Ant, Puerto Rico
Wild records
19 in range · 12 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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