While conducting a floristic inventory of BICY, plants were encountered in three areas within a nine kilometer radius of each other. The first colony was found in late February 2002 in a recently burned tract of mesic pine flatwoods. Roughly 50 plants were found growing in sand amidst exposed roots of Serenoa repens (W. Bartram) Small as well as in the persistent leaf axils of the S. repens trunks. In addition, one plant was observed growing in the sandy soil with little organic matter at the base of a Pinus elliottii Engelm. var. densa Little & K.W. Dorman stump. A single collection was made at this population (Woodmansee #1104; FTG
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