Native to Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico Southeast, Nicaragua, Panamá (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Costa Rica, Limon, Limon
9.826917, -83.070861
Location Remarks
Cuenca del Bananito. Finca Selva Bananito. A lo largo del Río Carbón. 100 m elev.
Collectors
Barry E. Hammel, Sharon R. Christoph, Christopher Davidson, Isabel Perez-Hammel
Notes
Bejuco.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Solanales
Family
Convolvulaceae
Genus
Maripa
Specific Epithet
nicaraguensis
Authorship
Hemsl.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 2.8
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.2
Global rank
#174,898 of 335,497
Top 53%
Extinction probability
11%