Native to Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
South Africa, Mpumalanga, Ehlanzeni (Thaba Chweu, Lydenburg)
-25.315833, 30.495278
Location Remarks
Buffelskloof Private Nature Reserve
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Menispermaceae
Genus
Stephania
Specific Epithet
abyssinica
Authorship
(Quart.-Dill. & A.Rich.) Walp.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Moderate
ED 10.0
Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.9
Global rank
#49,584 of 335,497
Top 15%
Extinction probability
10%