Native to Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles; introduced into Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Haiti, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, Malawi, Marquesas, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nepal, New Caledonia, Niue, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Mexico, Veracruz
18.541111, -95.196389
Location Remarks
Volcan San Martin, lower and upper western slopes.
Collectors
Arturo Rincon, Carlos Duran-Espinosa, Christopher Davidson, James F. Smith
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Solanales
Family
Solanaceae
Genus
Solanum
Specific Epithet
wendlandii
Authorship
Hook.fil.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 2.3
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
#198,888 of 335,497
Top 60%
Extinction probability
10%