Family: Rubiaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Critically Imperiled
Native Range:
Endemic to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, where limited to Great Inagua (accepted as endemic by Freid et al. 2014).
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
Comments:
In thickets; southeastern archipelago (Correll & Correll, 1982).
For an image of the type specimen collected on Great Inagua by George V. Nash and Norman Taylor, visit the
New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium.