Native to China North-Central, China South-Central, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Tibet, Vietnam; introduced into Colombia, Great Britain (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

C. Davidson 13779

August 14, 2017

Location

China, Sichuan, Litang Xian.

30.181111, 99.978056

Location Remarks

Ca. 40 km west of Litang on road (Highway G318) from Litang to Batang. Mountains with coarse sand slopes on north side of highway, heavily grazed meadows, thickets of dwarf Rhododendron (mostly <1 m tall, but some plants to 1.5 m), Caragana, Salix and Lonicera thickets and coarse, granitic sand scree slopes. 4100-4400 m.

Collectors

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

Notes

Open, rocky slope above stream. Herb, ca. 1.5 m tall; large basal leaf.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Polygonaceae

Genus

Rheum

Specific Epithet

palmatum

Authorship

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIF WFO POWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 0.4

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

0.0

Global rank

#307,550 of 335,497

Top 92%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →