Family: Fabaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Shrub
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: Endemic to peninsular Florida.
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
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Synonyms:
Acacia pinetorum, Vachellia insularis, Vachellia peninsularis.
FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
Present
FLORIDA KEYS Native Status:
Native
IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status:
Rare
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. This species was not named until 1933, when Small described it from plants on the mainland (as Vachellia peninsularis). He also mentioned a "dwarf" form of V. peninsularis found in the pinelands of the lower Keys. Both V. peninsularis and V. insularis, which Small noted from hammocks and pinelands in the Florida Keys, are now placed into synonymy under Vachellia farnesiana var. pinetorum. It is extant in the lower Florida Keys and also known from North Key Largo, where it is perhaps relict from the historical pineland there.
