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Taxon

Asystasia riparia Lindau

Protologue Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33(1): 189. 1902 [18 Nov 1902]BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Asystasia riparia cf--Kenya. Limuru.  Trailside  near Brackenhurst Ctr.  11 Jul 04. 146.jpg

Asystasia riparia cf--Kenya. Limuru. Trailside near Brackenhurst Ctr. 11 Jul 04. 146.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Asystasia riparia cf--Kenya. Limuru.  Trailside  near Brackenhurst Ctr.  11 Jul 04. 150.jpg

Asystasia riparia cf--Kenya. Limuru. Trailside near Brackenhurst Ctr. 11 Jul 04. 150.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Asystasia riparia cf--Kenya. Limuru.  Trailside  near Brackenhurst Ctr.  11 Jul 04. 149.jpg

Asystasia riparia cf--Kenya. Limuru. Trailside near Brackenhurst Ctr. 11 Jul 04. 149.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Asystasia riparia cf--Kenya. Limuru.  Trailside  near Brackenhurst Ctr.  11 Jul 04. 147.jpg

Asystasia riparia cf--Kenya. Limuru. Trailside near Brackenhurst Ctr. 11 Jul 04. 147.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Asystasia riparia cf--Kenya. Limuru.  Trailside  near Brackenhurst Ctr.  11 Jul 04. 152.jpg

Asystasia riparia cf--Kenya. Limuru. Trailside near Brackenhurst Ctr. 11 Jul 04. 152.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Asystasia riparia cf--Kenya. Limuru.  Trailside  near Brackenhurst Ctr.  11 Jul 04. 151.jpg

Asystasia riparia cf--Kenya. Limuru. Trailside near Brackenhurst Ctr. 11 Jul 04. 151.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Asystasia riparia cf--Kenya. Limuru.  Trailside  near Brackenhurst Ctr.  11 Jul 04. 145.jpg

Asystasia riparia cf--Kenya. Limuru. Trailside near Brackenhurst Ctr. 11 Jul 04. 145.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia (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

July 11, 2004

Location

Kenya, Limuru District

Location Remarks

Limuru village, 25 km north of Nairobi. Brackenhurst Botanic Garden & Forest. Trailside near Brackenhurst Center.

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Acanthaceae

Genus

Asystasia

Specific Epithet

riparia

Authorship

Lindau

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 1.7

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

0.2

Global rank

#203,543 of 335,497

Top 61%

Extinction probability

11%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →