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This category contains the native flora of Yucatán state in Mexico, as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions.; Taxa of the lowest rank are always included; taxa of higher ranks (e.g. genus) are only included if monotypic or endemic.
The large peninsula is politically subdivided within the nation of Belize, 3 of the 5 states of southeastern Mexico, and the Petén Department of northern Guatemala. Hence it is divided between the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions 's Northern America, which includes Mexico, and Southern America, which includes Central ...
Cordia dodecandra grows to a maximum height of 7.5–9 m (25–30 ft) at maturity. Flowers are produced in clusters at branch ends from February to May. Each flower is 50 mm (2 in) wide, bright orange in color, tubular, flaring with 11–18 lobes, bearing 13–18 stamens that are not equal in length.
The proper derivation of the word Yucatán is widely debated. 17th-century Franciscan historian Diego López de Cogolludo offers two theories in particular. [8] In the first one, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, having first arrived to the peninsula in 1517, inquired the name of a certain settlement and the response in Yucatec Mayan was "I don't understand", which sounded like yucatán to the ...
The Maya Forest is a tropical moist broadleaf forest that covers much of the Yucatan Peninsula, thereby encompassing Belize, northern Guatemala, and southeastern Mexico.It is deemed the second largest tropical rainforest in the Americas, after the Amazon, with an area of circa 15 million hectares (150,000 km 2), of which at least 3 million (30,000 km 2) lie within protected areas.
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Pages in category "Fauna of the Yucatán Peninsula" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... Yucatan brown ...
Yucatán endemic birds, not necessarily limited to the ecoregion, include the ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata), Yucatan nightjar (Antrostomus badius), Yucatán woodpecker (Melanerpes pygmaeus), Yucatan poorwill (Nyctiphrynus yucatanicus), yellow-lored parrot (Amazona xantholora), Yucatan flycatcher (Myiarchis yucatanensis), Yucatan jay ...
Cabo Catoche or Cape Catoche, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, is the northernmost point on the Yucatán Peninsula. It lies in the municipality of Isla Mujeres , about 53 km (33 mi) north of the city of Cancún .