''Symplocos costaricana'' is a species of plant in the family

Symplocaceae Symplocaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, including two genera, ''Symplocos ''Symplocos'' is a genus of flowering plants in the order Ericales. It contains about 300 species distributed in Asia and the Americas. Man ...

. It is native to Central America.

Conservation

''Symplocos molinae'' was assessed as critically endangered in the 1998

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, where it was said to be native only to

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

. , ''Symplocos molinae'' is regarded as a synonym of ''Symplocos costaricana'', which has a wider distribution in Central America, and is assessed as

least concern A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. T ...

References

costaricana Flora of Central America Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Ericales-stub