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capensis

Taxon

Knowltonia capensis (L.) Huth

Protologue Samml. Naturwiss. Vorträge iii. (1890) 69.IPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Knoweltonia capensis. 72.0634--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gard. 11 Feb 03. 106.jpg

Knoweltonia capensis. 72.0634--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gard. 11 Feb 03. 106.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Knoweltonia capensis. 72.0634--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gard. 11 Feb 03. 105.jpg

Knoweltonia capensis. 72.0634--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gard. 11 Feb 03. 105.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Knoweltonia capensis. 72.0634--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gard. 11 Feb 03. 108.jpg

Knoweltonia capensis. 72.0634--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gard. 11 Feb 03. 108.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Knoweltonia capensis. 72.0634--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gard. 11 Feb 03. 107.jpg

Knoweltonia capensis. 72.0634--CA. UC Berkeley Bot. Gard. 11 Feb 03. 107.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Endemic to Cape Provinces (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

72.0634

February 11, 2003

Location

United States, California, Alameda County (Berkeley, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden)

37.87544, -122.238724

Location Remarks

Strawberry Canyon, University of California campus, city of Berkeley

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ranunculales

Family

Ranunculaceae

Genus

Knowltonia

Specific Epithet

capensis

Authorship

(L.) Huth

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 0.7

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

0.1

Global rank

#276,530 of 335,497

Top 83%

Extinction probability

13%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →