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Taxon

Drosanthemum speciosum (Haw.) Schwantes

Protologue Z. Sukkulentenk. iii. 30 (1927).IPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Drosanthemum speciosum--CA. Huntington Bot. Garden. May 75. 001a.jpg

Drosanthemum speciosum--CA. Huntington Bot. Garden. May 75. 001a.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Drosanthemum speciosum--CA. Huntington Bot. Garden. May 75. 001c.jpg

Drosanthemum speciosum--CA. Huntington Bot. Garden. May 75. 001c.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Drosanthemum speciosum--CA. Huntington Bot. Garden. May 75. 001.jpg

Drosanthemum speciosum--CA. Huntington Bot. Garden. May 75. 001.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Drosanthemum speciosum--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 22 Feb 88..jpg

Drosanthemum speciosum--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 22 Feb 88..jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Endemic to Cape Provinces (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 2 occurrences across 1 country.

Distribution

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

No collection number

May 1, 1975

Location

United States, California (Huntington Botanical Gardens)

Location Remarks

1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino

Collectors

No collectors specified

No collection number

January 1, 1900

Location

United States, California, Alameda County (Berkeley, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden)

37.87544, -122.238724

Location Remarks

Strawberry Canyon, University of California campus, city of Berkeley

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Aizoaceae

Genus

Drosanthemum

Specific Epithet

speciosum

Authorship

(Haw.) Schwantes

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 2.6

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.3

Global rank

#154,721 of 335,497

Top 47%

Extinction probability

13%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →