Native to Cabinda, Cameroon, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Is., Nigeria (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Gabon, Estuaire
0.416278, 9.490083
Location Remarks
Libreville - Aboretum Sibang. Elev. 30 m.
Collectors
David Kenfack, Nestor Engone Obiang, Prance Bissiemou, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Moist hill forest. Shrub 2 m. Fruit green, flattened, longitudinally ribbed, beaked.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Cardiopteridales
Family
Stemonuraceae
Genus
Lasianthera
Specific Epithet
africana
Authorship
P.Beauv.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Moderate
ED 23.3
Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.
Threat status
IUCN Red List
EDGE score
1.0
Global rank
#40,951 of 335,497
Top 13%
Extinction probability
6%