Endemic Plants of Cuba: The Complete List — No entries match the criteria

Recognize that no plant entries meet the strict criteria set for a “complete list of endemic plants of Cuba.” Demand for a fully sourced, fully validated list (scientific name, family, habitat, distribution, IUCN status, photo, and primary citations) finds no single dataset that satisfies every requirement at once.

Understand why the criteria create an empty result. Taxonomy changes often. Names and species limits shift as experts publish new studies. Different databases (Kew POWO, GBIF, IUCN, Cuban herbaria) use different names and scopes. Define “endemic” by country borders and expect exact province-level data, and you remove many near matches. Require a conservation assessment for every species, and many valid endemics lack an IUCN entry. These strict conditions leave no single, fully compliant list.

Accept the technical and historical reasons behind the absence. Historic collections, synonymy, and ongoing field work make a truly “complete” list unstable. Political and biogeographic borders differ: some species are endemic to the Cuban archipelago but cited under wider Caribbean floras. Data access and digitization gaps in Cuban herbaria also limit complete exports. Near matches do exist in trusted sources — use Kew’s Plants of the World Online, GBIF occurrence datasets, and the IUCN Red List. For example, the cycad Microcycas calocoma is a well-documented Cuban endemic cited across sources and serves as a reliable near-match.

Explore related, useful lists instead. Consult “Flora of Cuba” treatments, curated lists of Cuban native plants, IUCN assessments for Cuban endemics, and genus-level lists (palms, orchids, cacti, ferns) that contain many island endemics. Use Kew, GBIF, and Cuban herbaria as primary sources and download occurrence CSVs or filter by province to build a vetted, paginated list that meets your needs.

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