Family: Apocynaceae
                                    
                                    
				
          
Group:  Dicot
          
            
              
					
Perennation:
					
						Perennial
					
					
					
				
					
Habit:
					
						Vine
					 
					
					
				
					
Substrate:
					
						Terrestrial
					
					
					
				
					
Native Status:
					
            			Native	
	            	
					
					
				
					
Preliminary IRC Status:
					
						Critically Imperiled
					
					
					
					
				
Native Range:
				Endemic to the Turks and Caicos Islands (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: 528-529, 1158, with illustrations) for cut-over areas and disturbed areas in the Turks and Caicos Islands (region 1).  Apparently endemic to North Caicos (Correll & Correll 1982).
				
				
				
Synonyms:
				Cynanchum stipitatum.