Family: Amaranthaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Herb
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Presumed Extirpated
Native Range:
The Turks and Caicos Islands and northern South America (Venezuela); apparently collected just once in the West Indies.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Not listed in Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Cited for the Bahamas apparently based on a single collection from the Turks and Caicos Islands stored at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum herbarium (Correll & Correll, 1982: 466 and 1559). Otherwise, this species is known only from northern Venezuela, including Margarita Island.
Comments:
For an image of an isotype collected in Venezuela, visit
P (the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France).
