Family: Fabaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Vine
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: Native to the tropics worldwide.
NatureServe Global Status:
Apparently Secure
State of Florida Status:
Endangered
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Critically Imperiled
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Critically Imperiled
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
South Florida History and Distribution: Ranked as critically imperiled in Rare Plants of South Florida (
Gann et al. 2002; pp 222-224) based on three occurrences in two protected areas (Biscayne National Park; Vizcaya Museum and Gardens), and one non-protected area (Plantation Key residential development). Two additional locations have been documented in the upper Florida Keys. Plants at Vizcaya and elsewhere on the mainland have been determined to be the nonnative
C. crista from Asia.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Not Cultivated
Comments: For an image and more information, visit the
Cook Islands Biodiversity Database. Note the lack of foliaceous stipules, which differentiates this from C. bonduc.
Synonyms:
Guilandina bonduc, misapplied.
FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
Present
FLORIDA KEYS Native Status:
Native
IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status:
Critically Imperiled
Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys
Florida Keys History and Distribution: Reported in
1913 by John Kunkel Small for coastal sand dunes and hammocks from the upper Keys to the lower Key (as both
Guilandina bonduc and Guilandina ovalifolia. We consider this native and extant in the upper Keys, but perhaps extirpated in the lower Keys.
