Sachsia polycephala Griseb.:
United States (North America)

Bahamas

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

Cuba

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

Jamaica

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

Plants 10–60 cm. Leaf blades 2–12 × 1–4 cm, margins denticulate to coarsely and regularly dentate or repand-dentate with callous-tipped teeth. Involucres 5–8 mm. Phyllaries: apices acute, abaxial faces ± glandular. Ray or pistillate corollas: laminae ca. 0.5 mm or none. Cypselae 1.5–2 mm; pappi 3–4 mm. 2n = 20.

Sachsia bahamensis Urban; S. divaricata Grisebach

Isolectotype for Sachsia polycephala Griseb.
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Verified from the card file of type specimens
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): C. Wright
Year Collected: 1865
Locality: Near Retiro., Greater Antilles, Cuba, West Indies

Comments: Pine rocklands.

Bahamas

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

Cuba

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

Jamaica

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: N2 - Imperiled

Rounded Global Status Rank: G2 - Imperiled

Reasons: Habitat destruction and fire suppression are heavily impacting populations of this species. Currently, only 20 occurrences are known from Dade and Monroe counties, Florida. Kartesz (1999) includes S. bahamensis in this species.

Comments: Treated here as Florida endemic, but Kartesz (1999) includes S. bahamensis (ranked "G2") as a synonym of this species.