Family: Rubiaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Rare
Native Range:
Endemic to the Bahama Archipelago (accepted as endemic by Freid et al. 2014).
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
Comments:
In thickets and coppices, especially near the coast; central and southeastern archipelago (Correll & Correll, 1982).
For an image of an herbarium specimen collected on Pine Cay in the Turks & Caicos by William T. Gillis in 1973, visit the
Fairchid Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium.
