Listado de Epífitas de Colombia

First, species classified under the growth habits epiphyte and hemiepiphyte were extracted from two national catalogs: the Catalog of Plants of Antioquia (CPA) (Idárraga Piedrahíta et al., 2011) and the Catalog of Plants and Lichens of Colombia (CPLC) (Bernal et al., 2016). In parallel, a list of epiphytic ferns was contributed by the Ferns of Colombia research group.

These three sources were merged and cleaned to remove duplicate entries. We then incorporated EpiList 1.0, a global checklist of vascular epiphytes (Zotz et al., 2021), using the rgbif package in R (Chamberlain, 2017) to extract only species recorded in Colombia. In addition, epiphyte species occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) were included.