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viscosa

Taxon

Xerophyta viscosa Baker

Protologue J. Bot. 13: 235. 1875BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 143.jpg

Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 143.jpg

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Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 145.jpg

Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 145.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 144.jpg

Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 144.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 140.jpg

Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 140.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 142.jpg

Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 142.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 141.jpg

Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 141.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 139.jpg

Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 139.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 138.jpg

Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 138.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 137.jpg

Xerophyta viscosa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 137.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Cape Provinces, Eswatini, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho (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

No collection number

March 19, 2005

Location

South Africa, Mpumalanga (Whyte Thorne Private Garden)

0.579167, 9.332778

Location Remarks

Ca. 23 km E of Nelspruit, Karino Region, then S to Whyte Thorne Private Garden of Douglas McMurtry and Shane Burns.

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Pandanales

Family

Velloziaceae

Genus

Xerophyta

Specific Epithet

viscosa

Authorship

Baker

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 2.5

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

0.3

Global rank

#166,034 of 335,497

Top 50%

Extinction probability

12%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →