Afrocarpus gracillior. 28.0175--California. Berkeley Bot. Gard. 11 Feb 03. 097.jpg
Afrocarpus gracillior. 28.0175--California. Berkeley Bot. Gard. 11 Feb 03. 044.jpg
Afrocarpus gracillior. 28.0175--California. Berkeley Bot. Gard. 11 Feb 03. 046.jpg
Afrocarpus gracillior. 28.0175--California. Berkeley Bot. Gard. 11 Feb 03. 045.jpg
Afrocarpus gracillior. 28.0175--California. Berkeley Bot. Gard. 11 Feb 03. 043.jpg
Native to Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda; introduced into Eritrea (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
United States, California, Alameda County (Berkeley, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden)
37.87544, -122.238724
Location Remarks
Strawberry Canyon, University of California campus, city of Berkeley
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Pinopsida
Order
Pinales
Family
Podocarpaceae
Genus
Afrocarpus
Specific Epithet
gracilior
Authorship
(Pilg.) C.N.Page
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Moderate
ED 3.7
Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.
Threat status
IUCN Red List
EDGE score
0.2
Global rank
#748 of 1,090
Top 1,000 globally
This lineage appears to have diverged from its closest living relatives roughly 4 million years ago — a long, lonely branch of the plant tree of life.
Source: Gymnosperms EDGE assessment →