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mystacinus

Taxon

Helinus mystacinus (Aiton) E.Mey. ex Steud.

Protologue Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2. i. 742; Hemsl. in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 385.BHLIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Helinus mystacinus--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 Jul 04. 093.jpg

Helinus mystacinus--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 Jul 04. 093.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Helinus mystacinus--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 Jul 04. 091.jpg

Helinus mystacinus--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 Jul 04. 091.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Helinus mystacinus--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 Jul 04. 094.jpg

Helinus mystacinus--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 Jul 04. 094.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Helinus mystacinus--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 Jul 04. 090.jpg

Helinus mystacinus--Kenya. Limuru. Garden of Sue Brown. 10 Jul 04. 090.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Burundi, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, 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

July 10, 2004

Location

Kenya (Sue Brown's private garden)

Location Remarks

Town of Limuru, about 30 miles northwest of Nairobi.

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Rosales

Family

Rhamnaceae

Genus

Helinus

Specific Epithet

mystacinus

Authorship

(Aiton) E.Mey. ex Steud.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 6.8

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

0.5

Global rank

#94,010 of 335,497

Top 29%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →