Native to Benin, Burkina, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

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

Occurrences

Leal, M 1025

April 10, 2006

Location

Gabon, Estuaire

0.416278, 9.490083

Location Remarks

Libreville - Aboretum Sibang. Elev. 30 m.

Collectors

Miguel E. Leal, Diosdado Nguema, Etienne Mounoumoulossi, Prance Bissiemou, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Alismatales

Family

Araceae

Genus

Nephthytis

Specific Epithet

afzelii

Authorship

Schott

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIF WFO POWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Moderate

ED 22.4

Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.

EDGE Research

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

2.0

Global rank

#14,817 of 335,497

Top 5%

Extinction probability

12%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →