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Centratherum punctatum Cass.

Protologue Dict. Sci. Nat., éd. 2. 7: 384. 1817 [24 May 1817]BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Centratherum punctatum, Stevens,  W. D 31259, Garay Cue, 20 Mar 2011 4597 (5).JPG

Centratherum punctatum, Stevens, W. D 31259, Garay Cue, 20 Mar 2011 4597 (5).JPG

By Sharon R. Christoph

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Centratherum punctatum, Stevens,  W. D 31259, Garay Cue, 20 Mar 2011 4597 (1).JPG

Centratherum punctatum, Stevens, W. D 31259, Garay Cue, 20 Mar 2011 4597 (1).JPG

By Sharon R. Christoph

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Centratherum punctatum, Stevens,  W. D 31259, Garay Cue, 20 Mar 2011 4597 (4).JPG

Centratherum punctatum, Stevens, W. D 31259, Garay Cue, 20 Mar 2011 4597 (4).JPG

By Sharon R. Christoph

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Centratherum punctatum, Stevens,  W. D 31259, Garay Cue, 20 Mar 2011 4597 (3).JPG

Centratherum punctatum, Stevens, W. D 31259, Garay Cue, 20 Mar 2011 4597 (3).JPG

By Sharon R. Christoph

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Centratherum punctatum, Stevens,  W. D 31259, Garay Cue, 20 Mar 2011 4597 (2).JPG

Centratherum punctatum, Stevens, W. D 31259, Garay Cue, 20 Mar 2011 4597 (2).JPG

By Sharon R. Christoph

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela; introduced into 43 botanical countries across Africa, Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, Australasia, Pacific, Northern America, and Southern America (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

Stevens, W. D 31259

March 20, 2011

Location

Paraguay, Concepcion (San Carlos, Zona de Estancias)

-22.533611, -57.361667

Location Remarks

Estancia Garay Cuê, "Mirador" at top of a steep sandstone bluff with jumbled boulders; forest among rocks. 380 m elev.

Collectors

W. Douglas Stevens, Isabel Basualdo, Olga Martha Montiel, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph

Notes

Common, decumbent, heads purple.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Asteraceae

Genus

Centratherum

Specific Epithet

punctatum

Authorship

Cass.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 2.9

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

0.2

Global rank

#190,985 of 335,497

Top 57%

Extinction probability

9%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →