Clusia clarendonensis
Overview
A detailed profile for this species is sourced from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as assessments become available.
Clusia clarendonensis faces severe pressure from limestone quarrying activities that directly destroy its specialized habitat in the Dry Harbour Mountains of Jamaica. The species' extremely limited range makes it particularly vulnerable to habitat fragmentation and degradation from agricultural expansion and infrastructure development. Climate change poses an additional threat through altered precipitation patterns that could affect the delicate moisture balance required by this epiphytic species.
Habitat
This endemic Jamaican species inhabits limestone cliffs and rocky outcrops in dry forest environments of the Dry Harbour Mountains in Clarendon Parish. It grows as an epiphyte or lithophyte on exposed limestone surfaces, requiring specific moisture and light conditions found in these specialized karst landscapes.