Schwenckia, W. D. Stevens 31319--Paraguay. Edo. Cordillera. Tobati. 23 Mar 2011. 276 (25).jpg
Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles; introduced into Angola, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Paraguay, Cordillera (Tobatí, Potrero)
-25.294444, -57.096667
Location Remarks
Cerro Tobatí, trail from Capilla Virgen de Fátima; weathered sandstone domes with shrubby vegetation in cracks and crevices. 211 m elev.
Collectors
W. Douglas Stevens, Olga Martha Montiel, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Among grasses, erect, herbaceous; corolla deep purple, fruits green to brown.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Solanales
Family
Solanaceae
Genus
Schwenckia
Specific Epithet
americana
Authorship
L.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 9.8
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.7
Global rank
#68,860 of 335,497
Top 21%
Extinction probability
9%
