Native to Angola, Botswana, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
South Africa, Mpumalanga (Whyte Thorne Private Garden)
0.579167, 9.332778
Location Remarks
Ca. 23 km E of Nelspruit, Karino Region, then S to Whyte Thorne Private Garden of Douglas McMurtry and Shane Burns.
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Commelinales
Family
Commelinaceae
Genus
Aneilema
Specific Epithet
hockii
Authorship
De Wild.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 2.8
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.2
Global rank
#193,396 of 335,497
Top 58%
Extinction probability
11%