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Native to Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Tanzania, Mbeya, Mbeya (Mshewe)
-8.8275, 33.263889
Location Remarks
Pungaluma Hills, NE of Mshewe Village, above Utengule Coffee Estate factory in miombo woodland on W-facing slope. 1550 m elev.
Collectors
Roy E. Gereau, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Frequent cormous perennial. Inflorescence pale yellow-green.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Moraceae
Genus
Dorstenia
Specific Epithet
benguellensis
Authorship
Welw.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Moderate
ED 18.2
Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
2.2
Global rank
#12,721 of 335,497
Top 4%
Extinction probability
13%
