Family: Apocynaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Vine
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Critically Imperiled
Native Range:
Endemic to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, where limited to Long Island (accepted as endemic by Freid et al. 2014).
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Not listed in Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 1158-1159, with illustrations) as climbing in saplings in rank low thickets in the central Commonwealth (region 4). Limited to the Long Island region according to Freid et al. 2014.
Comments:
For an image of the holotype, visit
TROPICOS.
