Family: Rubiaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Apparently Secure
Native Range:
Endemic to the West Indies (Bahamas, Hispaniola).
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
On beach dunes, and in coastal thickets and coppices; nearly throughout the archipelago (Correll & Correll, 1982). Also cited for Haiti (based on Urban 4191, US) by Negorn-Ortiz & Hickey (1996).
Comments:
For an image of a type specimen collected on Long Island by Nathaniel L. Britton and Charles F. Millspaugh in 1907, visit the
New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium.
