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*Andira inermis (W. Wright) Kunth ssp. inermis. Common name: Cabbage-bark Tree, West Indian Walnut. Phenology: Jun-Aug. Habitat: Hammocks. Distribution: West Indies; Mexico, Central America, South America, and subSaharan west Africa. Nativity in FL is unknown, but presumed introduced (“Reported as escaped in Florida by Small (1933, as Andira jamaicensis), by E. West and L. E. Arnold (1946), and by R. W. Long & Lakela (1971). Small (1933) wrote that "Living specimens collected on Bahia Honda Key were grown in the former Deering reservation at Buena Vista, Fla., where they flowered in 1924".

Origin/Endemic status: Neotropics

Synonymy ⓘ: = FNA11.1, POWO; Goeffroea inermis W.Wright < Andira inermis (W.Wright) Kunth — K4, Mex, NS, SE3, WI, Isely (1998). Basionym: Goeffroea inermis W.Wright 1787

Links to other floras: = Andira inermis ssp. inermis - FNA11.1

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