Family: Cannabaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Tree
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: Southern peninsular Florida (South Florida, Sarasota County where extirpated [
Small and Matthaus 11625 NY]), southern Mexico, and Central America (Belize); presumably also in Cuba.
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Secure
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Synonyms:
Trema micranthum var.
floridanum.
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 hammocks in the upper Keys. Mapped by Elbert L. Little, Jr. (1978) from the upper Keys to the lower Keys (Key West). We consider this native and extant from the upper Keys to the lower Keys.