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delavayi

Taxon

Rheum delavayi Franch.

Protologue Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) i. (1895) 212.BHLIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (129).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (129).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (131).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (131).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (141).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (141).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (135).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (135).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (125).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (125).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (127).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (127).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (139).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (139).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (136).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (136).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (124).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (124).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (137).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (137).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (132).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (132).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (128).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (128).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (134).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (134).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (140).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (140).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (133).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (133).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (126).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (126).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (130).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (130).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (138).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (138).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (142).JPG

Rheum dalavayi, C. Davidson 13770--China. Sichuan. Wu Ming Shan. 13 Aug 2017. DSC05530 (142).JPG

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to China South-Central, East Himalaya, Nepal (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

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

Occurrences

Davidson C., et al. 13770

August 13, 2017

Location

China, Sichuan, Daocheng Xian. (Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Daocheng County)

29.347778, 100.112778

Location Remarks

Road (Highway S217) from Litang to Sandui Xiang, north-northeast of Sandui; Haizi Shan. Glacial boulder-strewn area with rivulets, small ponds and wet depressions; vegetation dwarf (ca. 0.5 m tall) Salix and Rhododendron and gravelly openings. Granite bedrock. 4380 m. elev.

Collectors

Christopher Davidson, David E. Boufford, Sharon R. Christoph, Xin-Hui Ll, Tao Yang

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Polygonaceae

Genus

Rheum

Specific Epithet

delavayi

Authorship

Franch.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 1.1

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

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.1

Global rank

#263,960 of 335,497

Top 79%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →