Many-lobed Pepper Treelet (Piper platylobum)

This species was restricted to mountain forest at the western slopes of the Andes in the province Pichincha, Ecuador, where it was found at elevations between 1000 and 1600 m.

The species is known exclusively from a single collection from the year 1898 and is most likely already extinct.

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edited: 27.11.2018