Synapsis ilicifolia

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

{{Speciesbox

|status = EN

|status_system = IUCN2.3

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Areces-Mallea, A.E. |date=1998 |title=Synapsis ilicifolia |volume=1998 |page=e.T31690A9647382 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T31690A9647382.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

|genus = Synapsis (plant)

|parent_authority = Griseb.

|species = ilicifolia

|authority = Griseb.

}}

Synapsis ilicifolia is a species of plant in the family Schlegeliaceae.{{cite web |url= https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:810220-1 |title= Synapsis ilicifolia Griseb. |author= |date=n.d. |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=August 12, 2024}}{{cite web |url= https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/93PHW |title= Synapsis ilicifolia Griseb. |author= |date=n.d. |website=Catalogue of Life |publisher=Species 2000 |access-date=August 12, 2024}} It is endemic to the island of Cuba.Gentry, A.H. (1992). Distributional patterns of Central American and West Indian Bignoniaceae. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany, Supplementary Publication 1: 111-125.Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192. It is the sole species in the genus Synapsis, which was described as a genus in 1866.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/403662#page/192/mode/1up Grisebach, August Heinrich Rudolf. 1866. Catalogus plantarum cubensium exhibens collectionem Wrightianam aliasque minores ex insula Cuba missas 187] in Latin[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40008808 Tropicos, Synapsis Griseb.]