Found wild in the Maranhao region of Brazil and then cultivated at the University of Texas in Austin from where it was distributed to various zoologists as a possible food plant for Heliconius butterfly larvae.
Cultivated at Duke university in 1980 from stem of macDougal 220 collected 27-08-1977
Puntarenas: Cordillera de tilaran, grassy margin along road through monteverde Cloud Forest reserve, Pacific slope just below continental divide
Cultivated in greenhouse at MBG 1991-1996, from plant collected in French Guiana, roadside of piste forestière de Bélizon, 21 km from Cayenne Régina road on 30 Octobre 1991, by C.Feuillet
ex monte Quindiu in Nova Granada (Juss. scr.) ; Quindiu (Kunth scr.)
[Nov. gen. sp. : Crescit in monte Quindiu et prope La Villa de Ybarra in Regno Quitensi]
ex monte Quindiu in Nova Granada (Juss. scr.) ; Quindiu (Kunth scr.)
[Nov. gen. sp. : Crescit in monte Quindiu et prope La Villa de Ybarra in Regno Quitensi]
ex monte Quindiu in Nova Granada (Juss. scr.) ; Quindiu (Kunth scr.)
[Nov. gen. sp. : Crescit in monte Quindiu et prope La Villa de Ybarra in Regno Quitensi]
a tunguraga dans les cordileres du Perou
[Nov. gen. sp. : Crescit in sylvaticis ad radices montis ignivomi Quitensis Tunguraguae, prope la Cuchilla de Guandisava]
a tunguraga dans les cordileres du Perou
[Nov. gen. sp. : Crescit in sylvaticis ad radices montis ignivomi Quitensis Tunguraguae, prope la Cuchilla de Guandisava]
[Crescit in frigidis Regni Novo-Granatensis prope Santa Fé de Bogota ; item in umbrosis prope Buenavista, San Pedro et Los Teques, provinciae Caracasanae]
Plante donnée par F. Lechat & M. Pignal, originaire du Brésil (Bahia) et cultivée dans les serres tropicales du Jardin botanique Jean-Marie Pelt sous le numéro 1994.3.677