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Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Paraguay (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Paraguay, Guaira (Colonia Independencia, Planta Urbana)
-25.738056, -56.177778
Location Remarks
Parque Nacional Ybyturuzu, road to Granja Francisca; overgrown wet field just beginning to dry. 170 m elev.
Collectors
W. Douglas Stevens, Olga Martha Montiel, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Herbaceous twining vine with milky sap; corolla pale green, reflexed, corona purplish green, style apex purple, fruits green.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Gentianales
Family
Apocynaceae
Genus
Oxypetalum
Specific Epithet
balansae
Authorship
Malme
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 0.9
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.1
Global rank
#279,861 of 335,497
Top 84%
Extinction probability
10%
