English: Greenheart ebony.
Genus: 28 species.
Region: Jamaica.
Habitat; dry rocky thickets and woodland.
BotanyStem: thorns.
Leaves: coriaceous; with cystoliths; cuneate at the base and obtuse at the apex.
Flowers: small whitish; dioecious; flowering in August.
Fruits: drupaceous; containing four pyrenes.
TaxonomyRochefortia is close to Lepidocordia.