Family: Apocynaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Possibly Extirpated
Native Range:
Endemic to the West Indies.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported in 1920 by Britton & Millspaugh for shrublands on Great Inagua. Lumped into P. obtusa in Correll & Correll (1982: 1136-1137, with illustrations).
Comments:
For an image of a specimen collected by A.S. Hitchocock on Great Inagua (databased incorrectly as “Magua”), visit the
New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. This collection was made December 4, 1890 deposited at NY, FM and MO (Woodson 1938), and is apparently the only collection from the Bahamas. Surveys in the Inaguas, however, are needed.
Synonyms:
Plumeria sericifolia of Britton & Millspaugh (1920), not C. Wright ex Griseb.;
Plumeria obtusa var.
sericifolia of Correll & Correll (1982), not (C. Wright ex Griseb.) Woodson.
