Family: Fabaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Vine
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida and the West Indies (Bahamas, Greater Antilles).
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Rare
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: This is the twining
Galactia with narrow leaflets 2–4(–6) mm wide, and mostly >4 times at long as wide, in the Florida Keys and the interior of Miami-Dade County.
Franck (2017) separates this from the otherwise West Indian
Galactia parvifolia as the endemic
Galactia austrofloridensis, based on its long inflorescences.
Nesom (2015) treats this as
Galactia grisebachii, which is placed into synonymy under
Galactia parvifolia by the Flora of the West Indies and ITIS. Many specimens of
Galactia volubilis in South Florida approach this taxon in leaf shape.
Synonyms:
Galactia grisebachii; Galactia volubilis of Wunderlin 1998, in part, not (L.) Britton;
Galactia regularis of Wunderlin & Hansen 2011, in part, not (L.) Britton, Sterns, & Poggenb.
FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
Present
FLORIDA KEYS Native Status:
Native
IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status:
Rare
Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys
Florida Keys History and Distribution: Reported in
1913 by John Kunkel Small for pinelands and hammocks in the lower Keys. We consider this native and extant throughout the Florida Keys.
