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Taxon

Chaenomeles speciosa (Sweet) Nakai

Protologue Jap. J. Bot. 4: 331. 1929IPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Chaenomeles lagenaria--CA. UCLA. Mathias Bot. Gard. 13 Feb 03. 090.jpg

Chaenomeles lagenaria--CA. UCLA. Mathias Bot. Gard. 13 Feb 03. 090.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Chaenomeles lagenaria--CA. UCLA. Mathias Bot. Gard. 13 Feb 03. 091.jpg

Chaenomeles lagenaria--CA. UCLA. Mathias Bot. Gard. 13 Feb 03. 091.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Tibet, Xinjiang; introduced into 36 botanical countries across Europe, Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, Australasia, and Northern America (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

No collection number

February 13, 2003

Location

United States, Idaho, Idaho (Apolo, Mathias Botanical Garden)

-14.423056, -67.923889

Location Remarks

Los Angeles. UCLA campus, Westwood

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Rosales

Family

Rosaceae

Genus

Chaenomeles

Specific Epithet

speciosa

Authorship

(Sweet) Nakai

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 0.1

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

0.0

Global rank

#329,786 of 335,497

Top 99%

Extinction probability

12%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →