Acanthospermum australe, W. D. Stevens 31049--Paraguay. Edo. Amambay. Cerro Cora. 15 Mar 2011. 187 (8).jpg
Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.; introduced into 32 botanical countries across Europe, Africa, Tropical Asia, Australasia, Pacific, and Northern America (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Paraguay, Amambay (Pedro Juan Caballero, Cerro Cora - Picada Lorito)
-22.689167, -56.001667
Location Remarks
Parque Nacional Cerro Corá, between Lorito Picada and Arroyo Aceite-í; dense low forest. 270 m elev.
Collectors
W. Douglas Stevens, Olga Martha Montiel, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Prostrate herb, trailing on sand, heads white.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Acanthospermum
Specific Epithet
australe
Authorship
(Loefl.) Kuntze
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 1.0
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.1
Global rank
#274,094 of 335,497
Top 82%
Extinction probability
9%
