Date de publication : Nomencl. Bot. (ed. 1), 1:
245. 1821 [04-06/1821, fide TL-2,
13053].
Distribution : "Bahamas, Cuba, all provinces; Dominican Republic; Haiti, Jamaica; Puerto Rico; muddy banks of small streams, wet woods, marshy places, roadside ditches, in moist pockets among rocks and in grassy open areas; 0-200 m" (Graham
2017).