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Taxon

Galega officinalis L.

Protologue Sp. Pl. 2: 714. 1753 [1 May 1753]BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Galega officinalis--Italy. Tuscany. Univ. Firenze, Giard. dei Simplici, Florence. 22 May 03.  001.jpg

Galega officinalis--Italy. Tuscany. Univ. Firenze, Giard. dei Simplici, Florence. 22 May 03. 001.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Galega officinalis--Italy. Univ. Firenze, Giard. dei Simplici, Florence. 22 May 03. 002.jpg

Galega officinalis--Italy. Univ. Firenze, Giard. dei Simplici, Florence. 22 May 03. 002.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, East Aegean Is., Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Pakistan, Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine; introduced into 40 botanical countries across Europe, Africa, Australasia, Northern America, and Southern America (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

May 22, 2003

Location

Italy, Tuscany (Giardino dei Semplici)

Location Remarks

Via Pier Antonio Micheli, 3, Firenze (Florence). On the campus of the University of Florence.

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Fabaceae

Genus

Galega

Specific Epithet

officinalis

Authorship

L.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 4.6

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

0.4

Global rank

#125,669 of 335,497

Top 38%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →