''Codonanthopsis ulei'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

Gesneriaceae Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family (biology), family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Ges ...

. This species is native to tropical

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, ranging from Colombia and southern Venezuela to northern Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. It is an

epiphyte An epiphyte is a plant or plant-like organism that grows on the surface of another plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it. The plants on which epiphyt ...

and mainly grows in wet tropical biomes.

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ulei Flora of North Brazil Flora of Colombia Flora of Ecuador Flora of Peru Flora of Venezuela Plants described in 1934 {{Gesneriaceae-stub