Native to Chile Central, Chile South (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Chile, Maule, Talca
-35.938333, -70.610556
Location Remarks
Comuna San Clemente, 11.5 km below La Laguna on Highway 115 to Laguna Maule, 5.2 km below Puente Lo Aguirre; low shrubby vegetation on steep slopes. 1571 m elev.
Collectors
Christopher Davidson, Persy Gomez de la Fuente, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Liana.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Phytolaccaceae
Genus
Ercilla
Specific Epithet
spicata
Authorship
(Bertero) Moq.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Moderate
ED 10.1
Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
1.0
Global rank
#41,208 of 335,497
Top 13%
Extinction probability
10%