Family: Fabaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Imperiled
Native Range:
Endemic to the West Indies (Bahamas, Hispaniola).
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
Comments:
In thickets and coppices; southeastern archipelago (Correll & Correll, 1982).
For an image of an herbarium specimen collected in Haiti by Thomas A. Zanoni and others in 1985, visit the
New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium.
Synonyms:
Cassia inaguensis, Chamaecrista inaguensis.