Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 2 occurrences across 2 countries.
Location
Ecuador, Zamora Chinchipe
-3.973694, -79.077333
Location Remarks
Vía Loja-Zamora, Estación Cientifica San Francisco, sendero zig-zag, camino canal y Q2. 1862 m elev.
Collectors
Notes
Terrestrial, on trail bank; internodes short, 1 cm diam.; roots dense, pale green, sharply tapered turned erect; cataphylls narrowly acute, lanceolate, persisting as fine fibers; petioles O-shaped, prominently 3-ribbed adaxially, acute to bluntly acute abaxially, medium green, semiglossy; blades subcoriaceous, semiglossy, slightly bicolorous; midrib acute both surfaces; primary lateral veins narrowly rounded and paler on both surfaces; inflorescence erect; spathe medium green, reflexed, spadix pale gray-green, matte, pistils green early emergent; berries purplish violet.
Location
Peru, Madre de Dios, Tambopata
-12.483333, -68.813333
Location Remarks
Dist. Las Piedras, Lago Valencia. Bosque Ribereño.
Collectors
Jim Farfán Vargas, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, R. Pinedo
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Philodendron
Specific Epithet
ernestii
Authorship
Engl.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
High
ED 25.8
Sits on a long, isolated branch of the plant tree of life, with relatively few close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
2.1
Global rank
#13,457 of 335,497
Top 5%
Extinction probability
11%