Lepidozamia peroffskyana, 71.0346--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 2 Jul 07. 050.jpg
Lepidozamia peroffskyana, 71.0346--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 2 Jul 07. 052.jpg
Lepidozamia peroffskyana, 71.0346--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 2 Jul 07. 053.jpg
Lepidozamia peroffskyana, 71.0346--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Garden. 2 Jul 07. 051.jpg
Native to New South Wales, Queensland (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
United States, California, Alameda County (Berkeley, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden)
37.87544, -122.238724
Location Remarks
Strawberry Canyon, University of California campus, city of Berkeley
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Cycadopsida
Order
Cycadales
Family
Zamiaceae
Genus
Lepidozamia
Specific Epithet
peroffskyana
Authorship
Regel
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Very high
ED 16.7
Among the most evolutionarily isolated plants known — losing it erases an irreplaceable branch of the plant tree of life.
Threat status
IUCN Red List
EDGE score
1.0
Global rank
#370 of 1,090
Top 1,000 globally
This lineage appears to have diverged from its closest living relatives roughly 16 million years ago — a long, lonely branch of the plant tree of life.
Source: Gymnosperms EDGE assessment →