Copyright by: George D. Gann
In Habitat, Everglades National Park, Key Largo, Florida, 2013
Family: Celastraceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Tree
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida, the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and northern South America.
NatureServe Global Status:
Secure
State of Florida Status:
Endangered
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Imperiled
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Rare
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: This is native to the Florida Keys in both Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. One specimen was collected in 1906 on the mainland in historical Brickell Hammock by John Kunkel Small and Joel J. Carter (s.n., NY). There are no other records from the South Florida mainland or from offshore barrier islands.
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FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
Present
FLORIDA KEYS Native Status:
Native
IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status:
Imperiled
Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys
Florida Keys History and Distribution: First collected between 1838 and 1853 by John Loomis Blodgett on the island of Key West. Reported in
1913 by John Kunkel Small for coastal sand dunes and hammocks from the upper Keys to the lower Keys. We consider this native from the upper Keys to the lower Keys.
