 It makes part of the high andean forest and the paramo ecosystems.Colombia has the most species with 63 (Vargas & Madriñán, 2006), the majority of them found in the Oriental Cordillera, which has 33 registered species until this moment.Diplostephium is the third most diverse genus on the paramos with 70 species after "Pentacalia" and "Senecio" (Luteyn, 1999).