Native to China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Sakhalin; introduced into Austria, Central European Russia, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Germany, Great Britain, Illinois, Indiana, Italy, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, NW. Balkan Pen., Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., South Carolina, Virginia, Wisconsin (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

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

Occurrences

Not collected

May 26, 2016

Location

Japan, Honshu, Niigata

36.848667, 138.137194

Location Remarks

Myoko-Togakushi Renzan National Park. Suginosawa. Road 280 (on Google Maps) east to parking for trail to Naena-taki (waterfall). 785 m elev.

Collectors

David E. Boufford, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Buxales

Family

Buxaceae

Genus

Pachysandra

Specific Epithet

terminalis

Authorship

Siebold & Zucc.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIF WFO POWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 7.7

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

0.7

Global rank

#71,636 of 335,497

Top 22%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →