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abyssinica

Taxon

Stephania abyssinica (Quart.-Dill. & A.Rich.) Walp.

Protologue Repert. Bot. Syst. 1: 96. 1842BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Stephania abyssinica--So.Africa. Mpumal. Buffelskloof Private Nat. Res. 17 Mch 05. 357.jpg

Stephania abyssinica--So.Africa. Mpumal. Buffelskloof Private Nat. Res. 17 Mch 05. 357.jpg

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Stephania abyssinica--So.Africa. Mpumal. Buffelskloof Private Nat. Res. 17 Mch 05. 359.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Stephania abyssinica--So.Africa. Mpumal. Buffelskloof Private Nat. Res. 17 Mch 05. 356.jpg

Stephania abyssinica--So.Africa. Mpumal. Buffelskloof Private Nat. Res. 17 Mch 05. 356.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Stephania abyssinica--So.Africa. Mpumal. Buffelskloof Private Nat. Res. 17 Mch 05. 360.jpg

Stephania abyssinica--So.Africa. Mpumal. Buffelskloof Private Nat. Res. 17 Mch 05. 360.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Stephania abyssinica--So.Africa. Mpumal. Buffelskloof Private Nat. Res. 17 Mch 05. 363.jpg

Stephania abyssinica--So.Africa. Mpumal. Buffelskloof Private Nat. Res. 17 Mch 05. 363.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Stephania abyssinica--So.Africa. Mpumal. Buffelskloof Private Nat. Res. 17 Mch 05. 361.jpg

Stephania abyssinica--So.Africa. Mpumal. Buffelskloof Private Nat. Res. 17 Mch 05. 361.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Stephania abyssinica--So.Africa. Mpumal. Buffelskloof Private Nat. Res. 17 Mch 05. 364.jpg

Stephania abyssinica--So.Africa. Mpumal. Buffelskloof Private Nat. Res. 17 Mch 05. 364.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Stephania abyssinica--So.Africa. Mpumal. Buffelskloof Private Nat. Res. 17 Mch 05. 366.jpg

Stephania abyssinica--So.Africa. Mpumal. Buffelskloof Private Nat. Res. 17 Mch 05. 366.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

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.

Distribution

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

Occurrences

No collection number

March 17, 2005

Location

South Africa, Mpumalanga, Ehlanzeni (Thaba Chweu, Lydenburg)

-25.315833, 30.495278

Location Remarks

Buffelskloof Private Nature Reserve

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ranunculales

Family

Menispermaceae

Genus

Stephania

Specific Epithet

abyssinica

Authorship

(Quart.-Dill. & A.Rich.) Walp.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Moderate

ED 10.0

Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.9

Global rank

#49,584 of 335,497

Top 15%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →