Native to 36 botanical countries across Northern America and Southern America; introduced into Malaya (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Costa Rica, Heredia
10.146972, -83.946167
Location Remarks
Parque Nacional Braulio Carillo. Roadside barrow near Rio Sucio, off main highway 32.
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Piperales
Family
Piperaceae
Genus
Peperomia
Specific Epithet
glabella
Authorship
(Sw.) A.Dietr.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 3.5
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.3
Global rank
#163,076 of 335,497
Top 49%
Extinction probability
10%