Carpinus laxiflora (Siebold & Zucc.) Blume belongs to the Betulaceae family. Flora of the World contains 1 recorded occurrence of this taxon, distributed across 1 country.

Not collected

May 29, 2016

Location

Japan, Honshu, Niigata

36.848667, 138.137194

Location Remarks

Myoko-Togakushi Renzan National Park. Suginosawa. Road 280 (on Google Maps) east to parking for trail to Naena-taki (waterfall). 785 m elev.

Collectors

David E. Boufford, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph

Notes

Deciduous forest along Seki-kawa (river). Zig-zag trail down to the waterfall.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fagales

Family

Betulaceae

Genus

Carpinus

Specific Epithet

laxiflora

Authorship

(Siebold & Zucc.) Blume

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIF WFO POWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 2.2

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

0.2

Global rank

#221,076 of 335,497

Top 66%

Extinction probability

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →