Family: Malvaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Needs national and global assessment. In the Bahamas, this would likely rank as Critically Imperiled using NatureServe criteria and as Endangered using the IUCN Red List regional criteria, depending on the number and condition of extant populations and individuals.
Native Range:
Endemic to the West Indies (Bahamas, Hispaniola). In Hispaniola, limited to dry areas in western Haiti, including the island of Gonave, and the southwestern Dominican Republic in the Pedernales peninsula.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported by Britton & Millspaugh (1920) for waste ground at Clarence Town, Long Island (as
Abutilon pauciflorum). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 919) for “On the edge of and in coppices and weedy thickets…” in the central Commonwealth (regions 6, 4). Collected twice in 1977 by Donovan Correll: on the east edge of Clarence Town (
48168 MO); and, near the Forrest, Great Exuma (
48131 MO,
US).
Comments:
This differs from other Bahamian
Abutilon in being woody and having pink flowers. For specimen images and more label data, visit the
New York Botanical Garden Herbarium online.
Synonyms:
Abutilon pauciflorum of Britton & Millspaugh (1920), not A. St.-Hil.
