Physalis alkekengi--Italy. Tuscany. Univ. Firenze, Giard. dei Simplici, Florence. 22 May 03. 002.jpg
Native to Albania, Bulgaria, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Greece, Hainan, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Korea, Lebanon-Syria, Manchuria, NW. Balkan Pen., Pakistan, Qinghai, Romania, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe; introduced into 38 botanical countries across Europe, Africa, Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, and Northern America (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Showing the global range from POWO; no georeferenced specimens for this taxon.
Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO
Location
Italy, Tuscany (Giardino dei Semplici)
Location Remarks
Via Pier Antonio Micheli, 3, Firenze (Florence). On the campus of the University of Florence.
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Solanales
Family
Solanaceae
Genus
Alkekengi
Specific Epithet
officinarum
Authorship
Moench
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 3.4
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.3
Global rank
#161,035 of 335,497
Top 48%
Extinction probability
9%
