Native to Central American Pacific Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Ecuador, Zamora Chinchipe, El Pangui
-3.630278, -78.447222
Location Remarks
Cordillera del Cóndor. Summit area of sandstone plateau, a western spur of the Cóndor, Contrafuerte Tres Patines, south of Río Tundayme, above the military road to Cóndor Mirador. Dense, wet dwarf forest and low shrubby vegetation. 1680 m elev.
Collectors
David A. Neill, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Tree 8 m tall. Leaves somewhat distichous in arrangement. Inflorescences fasciculate on long horizontal branches.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Aquifoliales
Family
Aquifoliaceae
Genus
Ilex
Specific Epithet
yurumanguinis
Authorship
Cuatrec.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Moderate
ED 16.4
Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.
Threat status
IUCN Red List
EDGE score
0.7
Global rank
#64,719 of 335,497
Top 20%
Extinction probability
6%