Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Chile Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela; introduced into Alabama, Andaman Is., Assam, Borneo, Florida, Georgia, India, Jawa, Louisiana, Malaya, Mauritius, New South Wales, North Carolina, Society Is., Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Taiwan, Texas, Thailand (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Showing the global range from POWO; no georeferenced specimens for this taxon.
Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO
Location
Bolivia, La Paz, Nor Yungas
Location Remarks
Carretera fundam. 3, between Caranavi and Sta. Ana del Alto Beni. Various points along the road. Vegetation on steep hillsides, somewhat disturbed, less so over 20 km from Caranavi. Holdridge life zone appears to be very moist rain forest to lower montane very moist subtropical rain forest.
Collectors
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Myrtales
Family
Onagraceae
Genus
Ludwigia
Specific Epithet
peruviana
Authorship
(L.) H.Hara
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 8.7
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.6
Global rank
#76,230 of 335,497
Top 23%
Extinction probability
9%