Family: Euphorbiaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Rare
Native Range:
Endemic to the West Indies.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
Comments:
On coppice edges, in palm-thicket associations, and in soil pockets on rocky flats, saline flats and on hillsides; nearly throughout the archipelago (Correll & Correll, 1982).
There is an illustration in Correll & Correll (p. 779). For an image of a specimen collected in the Turks and Caicos by Jimi Sadle in 2002, visit the
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium.
