Native to Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá (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
Barry E. Hammel, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Árbol 10-12 m.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Fagales
Family
Ticodendraceae
Genus
Ticodendron
Specific Epithet
incognitum
Authorship
Gómez-Laur. & L.D.Gómez
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Very high
ED 78.4
Among the most evolutionarily isolated plants known — losing it erases an irreplaceable branch of the plant tree of life.
Threat status
IUCN Red List
EDGE score
9.9
Global rank
#619 of 335,497
Top 1,000 globally
Extinction probability
13%