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villosum

Taxon

Hedychium villosum Wall.

Protologue Fl. Ind. 1: 12. 1820BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Hedychium villosum, 92.0224--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 8 Dec 06. 134.jpg

Hedychium villosum, 92.0224--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 8 Dec 06. 134.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Hedychium villosum, 92.0224--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 8 Dec 06. 135.jpg

Hedychium villosum, 92.0224--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 8 Dec 06. 135.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Hedychium villosum, 92.0224--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 8 Dec 06. 136.jpg

Hedychium villosum, 92.0224--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 8 Dec 06. 136.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam (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

92.0224

December 7, 2006

Location

United States, California, Alameda County (Berkeley)

37.87544, -122.238724

Location Remarks

Strawberry Canyon, University of California campus, city of Berkeley

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Zingiberales

Family

Zingiberaceae

Genus

Hedychium

Specific Epithet

villosum

Authorship

Wall.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 1.9

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

0.1

Global rank

#231,715 of 335,497

Top 70%

Extinction probability

9%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →