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Ardisia alstonii is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae described from Panama. It was named in 1971 by the American botanist Cyrus Longworth Lundell, whose research on the Myrsinaceae of Central America produced a large number of new species names for the region. The IUCN continues to recognise the taxon and assesses it as vulnerable, treating it as endemic to Panama and threatened by habitat loss. The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, by contrast regards A. alstonii as a synonym of the widespread Neotropical species Ardisia compressa Kunth.
The type material of Ardisia alstonii was collected in Panama, and the species has been treated as endemic to that country in conservation assessments. Under the broader circumscription of A. compressa, the taxon occurs as a shrub or small tree of the wet tropical biome across much of Mesoamerica and northern South America, with a native range extending from Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama to Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. The fruit of A. compressa is locally used as food.
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