Everglades Bully (Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. austrofloridense)

Global Rank: T3 - Vulnerable
Legal Status: Federally Threatened
Family: Sapotaceae
State: FL
Nature Serve ID: 153280
Lifeform: Shrub
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

Perennial shrub with one to many stems, 3-6 feet tall having spiny branches and thin oval leaves about 1-2 inches long with fuzzy undersides. The flowers are in axillary cymes. They inhabit the pine rocklands of S. Florida and are threatened by habitat loss from fire suppression. Fires from lightening strikes historically burned the rocklands every 3-7 years and the suppression of this natural event drastically reduces the herbaceous diversity in the understory, allowing hammock hardwoods to overtake the pineland.

Where is Everglades Bully (Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. austrofloridense) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Everglades Bully can be found in Florida

Which CPC Partners conserve Everglades Bully (Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. austrofloridense)?

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Assigned 06/09/17

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Conservation Actions

Nature Serve Biotics

05/02/2017

Narrow, endemic subspecies occurring in sensitive and highly fragmented pine rocklands of southern Florida.