''Symplococarpon purpusii'' is a plant species of the genus, ''

Symplococarpon ''Symplococarpon'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Pentaphylacaceae The Pentaphylacaceae are a small family of plants within the order Ericales. In the APG III system of 2009, it includes the former family Ternstroemiace ...

''. It is native from southern Mexico to northern Colombia, occurring in such a large territory is hence presumed to have a large population and listed 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 ...

according to the

IUCN Red List The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biol ...

. This species of plant can be found in elevations as low as 116 metres and as high as 3,017 metres.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15394516 Flora of Mexico Flora of Colombia Pentaphylacaceae