Family: Rubiaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Preliminary IRC Status:
Imperiled
Native Range:
Endemic to the West Indies (Bahamas, Hispaniola).
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
On beach dunes and in whitelands; northwestern and southeastern archipelago (Correll & Correll, 1982).
Comments:
For an image of a type specimen collected in the Inaguas by George V. Nash and Norman Taylor in 1904, visit the
New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium.
Synonyms:
Ernodea nashii, Ernodea uninervis (see Negron-Ortiz & Hickey 1996).
