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melanocladum

Taxon

Piper melanocladum C.DC.

Protologue Bot. Gaz. 70: 176. 1920BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Piper melanocladum, CDavidson10879--Costa Rica. La Selva Biol. Station. 16 Feb 02. 001.jpg

Piper melanocladum, CDavidson10879--Costa Rica. La Selva Biol. Station. 16 Feb 02. 001.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Piper melanocladum, CDavidson10879--Costa Rica. La Selva Biol. Station. 16 Feb 02. 004.jpg

Piper melanocladum, CDavidson10879--Costa Rica. La Selva Biol. Station. 16 Feb 02. 004.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Piper melanocladum, CDavidson10879--Costa Rica. La Selva Biol. Station. 16 Feb 02. 003.jpg

Piper melanocladum, CDavidson10879--Costa Rica. La Selva Biol. Station. 16 Feb 02. 003.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Piper melanocladum, CDavidson10879--Costa Rica. La Selva Biol. Station. 16 Feb 02. 002.jpg

Piper melanocladum, CDavidson10879--Costa Rica. La Selva Biol. Station. 16 Feb 02. 002.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panamá (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

Davidson C. 10879

February 16, 2002

Location

Costa Rica, Heredia (Pococí Canton, Guápiles)

10.146972, -83.946167

Location Remarks

Parque Nacional Braulio Carillo. Roadside barrow near Rio Sucio, off main highway 32.

Collectors

Christopher Davidson

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Piperales

Family

Piperaceae

Genus

Piper

Specific Epithet

melanocladum

Authorship

C.DC.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

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

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.1

Global rank

#234,980 of 335,497

Top 71%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →