Native to China South-Central, China Southeast, Taiwan; introduced into 34 botanical countries across Africa, Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, Australasia, Pacific, Northern America, and Southern America (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
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
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Malvales
Family
Malvaceae
Genus
Hibiscus
Specific Epithet
mutabilis
Authorship
L.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 0.9
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.1
Global rank
#274,050 of 335,497
Top 82%
Extinction probability
10%