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Magnoliopsida
Conocarpus erectus L.
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Global Range: Shores of central and southern Florida including Florida Keys, Bermuda, nearly throughout West Indies from Bahamas and Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago and Dutch West Indies. On both coasts of continental tropical America from Mexico south through Central America and northern South America to Ecuador and Galapagos Islands and to Brazil (Little and Wadsworth 1964). Occurrence also known along the West African coast (Little and Wadsworth 1964 and Record and Mell 1924).
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 13
Species With Barcodes: 1
Distribucion en Costa Rica: Asociada a manglares. En ambas costas, más común en la Vertiente Pacífica y en la Isla del Coco.
Distribucion General: Nativo del sur de Florida, México hasta Panamá, Norte de Sur América, Ecuador, Brasil, Galápagos, Las Antillas y el oeste de África.
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The geographic range of Buttonwood includes the shores of central and southern Florida, including the Florida Keys; Bermuda; most of the West Indies; both coasts of continental tropical America from Mexico south through Central America and northern South America to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands and Brazil; and tropical West Africa. (Little and Wadsworth 1964; Nettel et al. 2008)
Semple (1970) gives the distribution as "along the coasts of west tropical Africa, the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical and subtropical North and South America and throughout the West Indies". Semple notes that pubescent-leaved individuals (as well as the typical glabrous, or smooth-leaved ones) are restricted to the northern West Indies, southern Florida, and northern Central America.
Buttonwood has been introduced to Hawaii at least twice and the silver-leaved variety sericeus is still commonly planted as an ornamental. The green-leaved variety was introduced to Oahu before 1910, possibly from Florida, and the variety sericeus was introduced to Oahu from the Bahamas in 1946. Both forms of Buttonwood have escaped cultivation and established small wild populations on some islands. In contrast to Red Mangrove, which was introduced to Hawaii and is now very common and widespread there, Buttonwood has not shown much tendency to spread beyong the initial introduction sites. In Hawaii it is cultivated and sparingly naturalized in coastal areas of Kauai, Oahu, Lanai, and Molokai. (Allen 1998 and references therein)
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United States
Rounded National Status Rank: N2 - Imperiled
Árbol o arbusto.
Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Reasons: Shores of central and southern Florida including Florida Keys, Bermuda, nearly throughout West Indies from Bahamas and Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago and Dutch West Indies. On both coasts of continental tropical America from Mexico south through Central America and northern South America to Ecuador and Galapagos Islands and to Brazil. Record and Mell (1924) report occurrence on the West African coast as well. In Puerto Rico, found in the mangrove swamp forests on silty shores near salt and brackish water, and sometimes also on rocky and sandy shores (Little and Wadsworth 1964). In general occurs along low muddy tide-water shores of lagoons and bays (Record and Mell 1924).
Buttonwood is often shrubby in form (although it can grow to 6 meters or more in height) and usually grows on the landward side of tidal mangrove swamp forests. In Florida and the Caribbean, it is the only mangrove species with alternately arranged leaves. The lance-shaped or elliptic yellow-green leaves are long-pointed at both ends, leathery and slightly fleshy, 3 to 8 cm long and 1 to 3 cm wide. Leaves have slightly winged petioles, 0.5 to 1 cm long, with 2 dot-like glands. Leaf blade edges are untoothed and usually have several dot-like glands near vein angles on the lower surface. The fragrant greenish flowers are tiny, less than 2 mm across, and crowded in balls less than 6 mm in diameter in terminal and lateral clusters. Flowers are mostly bisexual, but some trees bear heads of male flowers. Purplish-brown rounded cone-like fruits are 1 cm in diameter and are composed of many scale-like 1-seeded fruits about 3 mm long. (Little and Wadsworth 1964)
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