Habit: Breynia androgyna grows as a glabrous shrub to 3 m in height. The leaves are arranged alternately, ovate to obovate, to 15 cm (usually smaller), with an entire margin and with an acute leaf apex.
Breynia androgyna is monoecious. The incomplete, imperfect, actinomorphic, pendulant flowers are solitary or in groups of 2-3, in the axils of leaves. The perianth has 6 tepals. In the staminate flowers the tepals are light tan to green and reduced to small lobe like projections, have 6 stamens and no carpel. In carpellate flowers the red to purple tepals are reflexed, rounded, and there are no stamens. The ovary is superior with 3 locules. The fruit is a 3-lobed capsule.
Habitat: Breynia androgyna grows in Human Altered environments (yards and gardens).
Distribution: Breynia androgyna is NOT native to the Lucayan Archipelago. It is native to the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia. but is now grown throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the world.
Medicinal/Cultural/Economic usage: Breynia androgyna is not known to be used medicinally in the Bahamas.