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Floristic Inventory of the Florida Keys Database Online

Psychotria punctata Vatke
Dotted wild coffee

Psychotria punctata
Copyright by: Beryn Harty, 2014

Family: Rubiaceae

Group: Dicot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Shrub

Perennation: Perennial

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Present

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

South Florida History and Distribution: IRC considers this an emerging invasive in South Florida.

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Cultivated

Comments: For more images, click on the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants link below.

FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence: Present

FLORIDA KEYS Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

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. Reported in 1971 by Robert W. Long and Olga Lakela for disturbed areas in Key West and Miami. Sparingly naturalized in the city of Key West.

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Psychotria punctata has been reported for the following habitat in THE FLORIDA KEYS :
Disturbed Upland


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Psychotria punctata
Copyright by: Beryn Harty, 2014

Psychotria punctata
Copyright by: Beryn Harty, 2014

Psychotria punctata
Copyright by: Beryn Harty, 2014

Psychotria punctata
Copyright by: George D. Gann
Naturalized in Key West, Florida, 2013