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Taxon

Silene burchellii Otth ex DC.

Protologue Prodr. 1: 374. 1824 [mid Jan 1824]BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Silene burchellii, WKindeketa3012--Tanz. Makete Distr. Kitulo Nat. Pk. 25 Jan 08. 181.jpg

Silene burchellii, WKindeketa3012--Tanz. Makete Distr. Kitulo Nat. Pk. 25 Jan 08. 181.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Silene burchellii, WKindeketa3012--Tanz. Makete Distr. Kitulo Nat. Pk. 25 Jan 08. 180.jpg

Silene burchellii, WKindeketa3012--Tanz. Makete Distr. Kitulo Nat. Pk. 25 Jan 08. 180.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Silene burchellii, WKindeketa3012--Tanz. Makete Distr. Kitulo Nat. Pk. 25 Jan 08. 175.jpg

Silene burchellii, WKindeketa3012--Tanz. Makete Distr. Kitulo Nat. Pk. 25 Jan 08. 175.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Silene burchellii, WKindeketa3012--Tanz. Makete Distr. Kitulo Nat. Pk. 25 Jan 08. 177.jpg

Silene burchellii, WKindeketa3012--Tanz. Makete Distr. Kitulo Nat. Pk. 25 Jan 08. 177.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Silene burchellii, WKindeketa3012--Tanz. Makete Distr. Kitulo Nat. Pk. 25 Jan 08. 182.jpg

Silene burchellii, WKindeketa3012--Tanz. Makete Distr. Kitulo Nat. Pk. 25 Jan 08. 182.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Silene burchellii, WKindeketa3012--Tanz. Makete Distr. Kitulo Nat. Pk. 25 Jan 08. 179.jpg

Silene burchellii, WKindeketa3012--Tanz. Makete Distr. Kitulo Nat. Pk. 25 Jan 08. 179.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Silene burchellii, WKindeketa3012--Tanz. Makete Distr. Kitulo Nat. Pk. 25 Jan 08. 176.jpg

Silene burchellii, WKindeketa3012--Tanz. Makete Distr. Kitulo Nat. Pk. 25 Jan 08. 176.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Caryophyllaceae

Genus

Silene

Species

burchellii

Taxonomic opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Distribution

Native to Angola, Cape Provinces, Djibouti, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Oman, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

Kindeketa, W 3012

January 25, 2008

Location

Tanzania, Njombe, Makete (Kitulo)

-9.033083, 33.892667

Location Remarks

Kitulo National Park. Kitulo Plateau mmontane grassland. 2713 m elev.

Collectors

William J. Kindeketa, Roy E. Gereau, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 1.0

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

#284,406 of 335,497

Top 85%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →