Family: Malvaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Shrub
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America.
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Imperiled
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Not Cultivated
Comments: Although ranked as critically imperiled by IRC in Rare Plants of South Florida (Gann et al. 2002), new populations have been discovered since 2002 leading to the downranking of this to imperiled in 2014. Updated NatureServe criteria were used.
Synonyms: Malachra alceifolia var.
fasciata; Malachra alceifolia, misapplied. Although placed into synonymy under
M. fasciata by some authors (e.g., Florida Atlas, USDA PLANTS), South Florida plants represent
M. urens if the two entities are separated as is done in the Flora of the West Indies (see link below); among other characters,
M. fasciata sensu stricto has flowers white turning pink.
