Tarciso C. C. Leão^1,2, Peter B. Reich^2,3,4 and Eimear Nic Lughadha¹

¹Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, TW9 3AE, UK

²Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA

³Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, New South Wales, 2753, Australia

⁴Institute for Global Change Biology, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Running title : Range Size of Tropical Epiphytes

Keywords: Geographic range size; epiphytic clades; extinction risk; Mata Atlântica.

Type of article: Letter

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Correspondence: Tarciso C. C. Leão, Herbarium Building, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, TW9 3AE, UK. t.leao@kew.org

Statement of authorship: TCCL conceived the initial idea with support from PBR and ENL. TCCL compiled and analysed the data. TCCL wrote the initial draft of the manuscript with contributions from ENL and PBR. All authors contributed to developing the ideas, inferences and revising the manuscript.

Data accessibility statement: We confirm that, should the manuscript be accepted, the data supporting the results will be archived in an appropriate public repository (Dryad, Figshare or Hal) and the data DOI will be included at the end of the article.