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Hydrocotyle tambalomaensis is a small wild pennywort known only from Ecuador, found in montane forest and high-altitude grassland. It is not a commonly grown garden or houseplant, so care guidance is based on related Hydrocotyle species.
Hydrocotyle tambalomaensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
It is threatened by habitat loss.
American marshpennywort · Largeleaf pennywort · Hydrocotyle digitata · Forest Pennywort · Hydrocotyle hexagona · Hairy Pennywort · Hydrocotyle hitchcockii · Nepalese Pennywort · Hydrocotyle laxiflora · Musky marshpennywort · Hydrocotyle phoenix · Whorled marshpennywort
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hydrocotyle tambalomaensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
