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macrocarpus

Taxon

Petersianthus macrocarpus (P.Beauv.) Liben

Protologue Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 38: 207. 1968IPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Least Concern
Petersianthus macrocarpus--Gabon. Libreville. Arboretum de Sibang. 10 Apr 06. 050.jpg

Petersianthus macrocarpus--Gabon. Libreville. Arboretum de Sibang. 10 Apr 06. 050.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Petersianthus macrocarpus--Gabon. Libreville. Arboretum de Sibang. 10 Apr 06. 051.jpg

Petersianthus macrocarpus--Gabon. Libreville. Arboretum de Sibang. 10 Apr 06. 051.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Petersianthus macrocarpus--Gabon. Libreville. Arboretum de Sibang. 10 Apr 06. 052.jpg

Petersianthus macrocarpus--Gabon. Libreville. Arboretum de Sibang. 10 Apr 06. 052.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Angola, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Showing the global range from POWO; no georeferenced specimens for this taxon.

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

No collection number

April 10, 2006

Location

Gabon, Estuaire (Arboretum de Sibang)

Location Remarks

Lbreville.

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Lecythidaceae

Genus

Petersianthus

Specific Epithet

macrocarpus

Authorship

(P.Beauv.) Liben

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 4.3

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Least Concern

IUCN Red List

EDGE score

0.2

Global rank

#201,336 of 335,497

Top 61%

Extinction probability

6%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →