Native to Angola, Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Sierra Leone, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal
-31.006667, 30.177222
Location Remarks
Umtamvuna Nature Reserve, west of Port Edward. Rock outcrop in grassland along the south rim of the gorge.
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Orobanchaceae
Genus
Sopubia
Specific Epithet
simplex
Authorship
(Hochst.) Hochst.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 0.1
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.0
Global rank
#328,848 of 335,497
Top 99%
Extinction probability
11%