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Endemic to Ecuador (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Ecuador, Zamora Chinchipe, El Pangui (El Pangui Canton)
-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
Sparsely branched tree 8 m tall. Locally common. Leaves light brown to whitish beneath. Old dried inflorescences dark brown, terminal or on branches below leaves. The coordinates have been rounded to nearest minute and locality notes have been removed because the specimen is considered to be in a protected conservation status.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Malpighiales
Family
Chrysobalanaceae
Genus
Moquilea
Specific Epithet
grandibracteata
Authorship
(Prance) Sothers & Prance
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 3.7
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
IUCN Red List
EDGE score
0.9
Global rank
#51,725 of 335,497
Top 16%
Extinction probability
24%
