Family: Malvaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Not Native, Naturalized
Native Range:
The West Indes, Mexico, Central America and South America; widely cultivated and sometimes sometimes naturalized elsewhere.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 937-938, with illustrations) for coppices and thickets, often near the coast, in the northern Commonwealth (region 10).
Comments:
Correll & Correll described two varieties: var.
cubensis, which is this species and native, and var.
penduliflorus (now
Malvaviscus penduliflorus), which is not native to the Bahamas and is perhaps only cultivated here.
Synonyms:
Malvaviscus arboreus var.
cubensis,
Malvaviscus sagraeana [orth. var.].
