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villosa

Taxon

Holothrix villosa Lindl.

Protologue Companion Bot. Mag. 2: 207. 1837BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Holothrix villosa--So. Africa. Harold Porter National  Bot. Gard. 21 Nov 02. 037.jpg

Holothrix villosa--So. Africa. Harold Porter National Bot. Gard. 21 Nov 02. 037.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Holothrix villosa--So. Africa. Harold Porter National  Bot. Gard. 21 Nov 02. 038.jpg

Holothrix villosa--So. Africa. Harold Porter National Bot. Gard. 21 Nov 02. 038.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Holothrix villosa--So. Africa. Harold Porter National  Bot. Gard. 21 Nov 02. 039.jpg

Holothrix villosa--So. Africa. Harold Porter National Bot. Gard. 21 Nov 02. 039.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Cape Provinces, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Réunion, Zimbabwe (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Showing the global range from POWO; no georeferenced specimens for this taxon.

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

Occurrences

No collection number

November 21, 2002

Location

South Africa, Western Cape (Harold Porter National Botanical Garden)

Location Remarks

Betty's Bay, ca. 100 km E of Cape Town on R44.

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Holothrix

Specific Epithet

villosa

Authorship

Lindl.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 1.6

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

0.2

Global rank

#203,993 of 335,497

Top 61%

Extinction probability

13%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →