Family: Cactaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Shrub
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: Endemic to South Florida in the lower Florida Keys.
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 289-290) based on one extant occurrence within National Key Deer Refuge. No new occurrences are known.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: For a recent taxonomic assessment of
O. ochrocentra and
O. cubensis in South Florida, see
Majure et al. 2014.
Synonyms:
O. cubensis, 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: Not reported for the Florida Keys by John Kunkel Small in 1913, but collected by Small and others (s.n., NY) in 1921. We consider this native and extant in the lower Keys. For more information, see IRC's
species account.
