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Native to Bolivia, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Paraguay, Concepcion (San Carlos, Zona de Estancias)
-22.533611, -57.361667
Location Remarks
Estancia Garay Cuê, "Mirador" at top of a steep sandstone bluff with jumbled boulders; forest among rocks. 380 m elev.
Collectors
W. Douglas Stevens, Isabel Basualdo, Olga Martha Montiel, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Twining vine, woody below, flowers yellow-green.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Dioscoreales
Family
Dioscoreaceae
Genus
Dioscorea
Specific Epithet
acanthogene
Authorship
Rusby
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 8.2
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.8
Global rank
#53,320 of 335,497
Top 16%
Extinction probability
10%
