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Aiphanes palm

Aiphanes chiribogensis

Family
Arecaceae (Palm family)
Grows as
Palm
Native range
W. Ecuador
Climate
wet tropical

About

Aiphanes chiribogensis is a species of palm which is endemic to western Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Where it grows

Aiphanes chiribogensis is endemic to western Ecuador. It is known from Pichincha Province in northwestern Ecuador, and was collected from Azuay Province in southwestern Ecuador 1943 but the area where it was collected has suffered extensive deforestation, and attempts to find it again in that area have been unsuccessful.

Other Aiphanes plants

Aiphanes acaulis · Aiphanes argos · Aiphanes bicornis · Aiphanes deltoidea · Aiphanes duquei · Aiphanes eggersii · Aiphanes palm · Aiphanes hirsuta · Ruffle Palm · Aiphanes leiostachys · Aiphanes lindeniana · Aiphanes linearis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aiphanes chiribogensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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