Eleven species occurring at high elevations in the Andes from Venezuela through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru to Bolivia.
(Dransfield, J., Uhl, N., Asmussen, C., Baker, W.J., Harley, M. & Lewis, C. 2008: Genera Palmarum. The evolution and classification of palms)
12 species distributed throughout the Andes, in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
Ceroxylon is distributed from 11° 10' N in Distrito Federal, Venezuela, to 18°52' S in Cochabamba, Bolivia;
and from 76° 30' W in Valle del Cauca, Colombia, to 63°55'W in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It occurs along the
slopes and high inter-Andean valleys of the Central and Northern Andes, from the Cordillera de la Costa
(Venezuela) to the three cordilleras of Colombia, and South to Ecuador (east and west slopes), Peru, and to the
Department of Santa Cruz in Bolivia, from 900 m to 3500 m (Fig. 18?20). The individual species have a
restricted elevation range; C. amazonicum, for example, is found only between 800-1200 m. Eight species
have elevation ranges of 2000-2500 m, corresponding to montane cloud forest.
(Maria Jose Sanin & Gloria Geleano in Phytotaxa 34 (2011))