Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela; introduced into Cameroon, Caroline Is., Galápagos, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., India, Jawa, Laos, Leeward Is., Liberia, Malaya, Mauritius, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vietnam, Windward Is. (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Costa Rica, San Jose
9.903278, -84.421056
Location Remarks
5 km W of Grifo Alto and about 1 km E of San Pablo
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Plantaginaceae
Genus
Stemodia
Specific Epithet
verticillata
Authorship
(Mill.) Hassl.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 9.9
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.8
Global rank
#59,376 of 335,497
Top 18%
Extinction probability
10%