Vitex ferruginea ssp amboinense--So.Africa. Lowveld Nat. Bot. Gard. 14 Mch 05. 174.jpg
Native to Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Eswatini, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 3 occurrences across 1 country.
Location
South Africa, Mpumalanga (Buffalo City NU, Lowveld National Botanical Garden)
-33.016111, 27.808333
Location Remarks
City of Nelspruit
Collectors
No collectors specified
Location
South Africa
Location Remarks
Northern Drakensberg Mountains. Royal Natal National Park, near Thendele Lodge
Collectors
No collectors specified
Location
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal (Hibiscus Coast NU)
-31.006667, 30.177222
Location Remarks
Umtamvuna Nature Reserve, west of Port Edward. Rock outcrop in grassland along the south rim of the gorge.
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Lamiaceae
Genus
Vitex
Specific Epithet
ferruginea
Authorship
Schumach. & Thonn.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 1.3
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
IUCN Red List
EDGE score
0.1
Global rank
#287,825 of 335,497
Top 86%
Extinction probability
6%
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
