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Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.; introduced into Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico Southwest, Puerto Rico (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Ecuador, Zamora Chinchipe, Nangaritza (Nangaritza Canton)
-4.313333, -78.661389
Location Remarks
Cordillera del Cóndor, "Area de Conservación Los Tepuyes". Along banks of the Río Nangaritza, in the sandstone-walled canyon between Miazi and Shaime. Dense wet forest and sandstone rock outcrops. 890 m elev.
Collectors
David A. Neill, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, Wilson Quizhpe
Notes
Shrub 1.5 m tall. Inflorescence erect. Bracts green. Corolla bright red. Staminal filaments bright yellow.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Acanthaceae
Genus
Pachystachys
Specific Epithet
spicata
Authorship
(Ruiz & Pav.) Wassh.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 0.4
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.0
Global rank
#315,571 of 335,497
Top 95%
Extinction probability
10%
