Copyright by: George D. Gann
In habitat, Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park,
Florida, 2013
Family: Sapindaceae
Group: Dicot
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Habit:
Shrub
Perennation:
Perennial
Native Range: South Florida and the West Indies.
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
NatureServe Global Status:
Apparently Secure
State of Florida Status:
Endangered
Florida Natural Areas Inventory State Status:
Critically Imperiled
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
Imperiled
SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
Present
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
Native
South Florida History and Distribution: This was as imperiled in Rare Plants of South Florida (Gann et al. 2002) and using modern NatureServe criteria in 2025.
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
Cultivated
Comments: This is native to the South Florida mainland in Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys from North Key Largo south to Key West, where it is possibly extirpated. For a digitized image of Elbert Little's Florida range map, visit the
Exploring Florida website.
See also, IRC’s report
Vascular plant species of management concern in Everglades National Park (Gann 2015) and Florida Natural Areas Inventory's
Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Florida page (Chafin 2000).