Family: Apocynaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Herb
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida and the West Indies (Cuba, Bahamas, Hispaniola).
State of Florida Status:
Threatened
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Imperiled
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
South Florida History and Distribution: This is rare in South Florida and known only from the Miami Rock Ridge, the Florida Keys and the Big Cypress and Picayune Strand State Forest areas. It is only frequent in remnant pine rockland fragments on the Miami Rock Ridge. Using modern NatureServe criteria, we re-ranked this as Imperiled in South Florida in July 2018.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
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Synonyms:
Rhabdadenia corallicola.
FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
Present
FLORIDA KEYS Native Status:
Native
IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status:
Imperiled
Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys
Florida Keys History and Distribution: First collected between 1838 and 1853 by John Loomis Blodgett on Big Pine Key. Reported in
1913 by John Kunkel Small for pinelands in the lower Keys. We consider this native and extant in the lower Florida Keys.
