Native to Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Costa Rica, Heredia
10.146972, -83.946167
Location Remarks
Parque Nacional Braulio Carillo. Roadside barrow near Rio Sucio, off main highway 32.
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Cucurbitales
Family
Begoniaceae
Genus
Begonia
Specific Epithet
semiovata
Authorship
Liebm.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 2.9
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.2
Global rank
#181,950 of 335,497
Top 55%
Extinction probability
10%