Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Peru, Madre de Dios
-12.606389, -69.081667
Location Remarks
Dist. Las Piedras, Fundo Concepción, Trocha Mango, Bosque secundario.
Collectors
Jim Farfán Vargas, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, R. Pinedo
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Philodendron
Specific Epithet
brevispathum
Authorship
Schott
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
High
ED 29.0
Sits on a long, isolated branch of the plant tree of life, with relatively few close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
2.6
Global rank
#9,767 of 335,497
Top 3%
Extinction probability
10%