Native to 43 botanical countries across Tropical Asia, Northern America, and Southern America; introduced into Borneo, Christmas I., Florida, Galápagos, Madagascar, Malaya, Mauritius, Sri Lanka (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Paraguay, Concepcion
-22.533611, -57.361667
Location Remarks
Estancia Garay Cuê, "Mirador" at top of a steep sandstone bluff with jumbled boulders; forest among rocks. 380 m elev.
Collectors
W. Douglas Stevens, Isabel Basualdo, Olga Martha Montiel, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Shrub, corolla white.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Boraginales
Family
Cordiaceae
Genus
Varronia
Specific Epithet
curassavica
Authorship
Jacq.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 1.6
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.1
Global rank
#235,493 of 335,497
Top 71%
Extinction probability
10%