Native to China South-Central, China Southeast, Vietnam (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Vietnam, Lao Cai, Sa Pa (Sin Chai, San Sa Ho)
22.354167, 103.778889
Location Remarks
West of Sa Pa on "QL40." Trail to Hmong village. 1810 m elev.
Collectors
Jacinto (Jack) C. Regalado, Nguyen Sinh Khang, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Tree 15 m.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Cornales
Family
Nyssaceae
Genus
Diplopanax
Specific Epithet
stachyanthus
Authorship
Hand.-Mazz.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
High
ED 29.3
Sits on a long, isolated branch of the plant tree of life, with relatively few close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
2.9
Global rank
#8,218 of 335,497
Top 3%
Extinction probability
9%