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plumosus

Taxon

Pterocephalus plumosus (L.) Coult.

Protologue Mem. Dipsac. 31. t. 1. f. 15.IPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
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Native to Albania, Bulgaria, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Palestine, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Turkmenistan (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

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

Occurrences

No collection number

May 29, 2005

Location

Greece, Crete, Chania (Sfakia)

35.296278, 23.963472

Location Remarks

Samaria National Park. Samaria Gorge.

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Dipsacales

Family

Caprifoliaceae

Genus

Pterocephalus

Specific Epithet

plumosus

Authorship

(L.) Coult.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 3.7

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

0.3

Global rank

#137,100 of 335,497

Top 41%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →