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breviflorus

Taxon

Cyrtanthus breviflorus Harv.

Protologue Thes. Cap. ii. 25. t. 139.BHLIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Cyrtanthus breviflorus--So. Africa. Drakensberg Mts. Giant's Castle. 4 Oct 03. 032.jpg

Cyrtanthus breviflorus--So. Africa. Drakensberg Mts. Giant's Castle. 4 Oct 03. 032.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Cyrtanthus breviflorus--So. Africa. Drakensberg Mts. Giant's Castle. 4 Oct 03. 033.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Cyrtanthus breviflorus--So. Africa. Drakensberg Mts. Giant's Castle. 4 Oct 03. 036.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Cyrtanthus breviflorus--So. Africa. Drakensberg Mts. Giant's Castle. 4 Oct 03. 030.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Cyrtanthus breviflorus--So. Africa. Drakensberg Mts. Giant's Castle. 4 Oct 03. 037.jpg

Cyrtanthus breviflorus--So. Africa. Drakensberg Mts. Giant's Castle. 4 Oct 03. 037.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Cyrtanthus breviflorus--So. Africa. Drakensberg Mts. Giant's Castle. 4 Oct 03. 034.jpg

Cyrtanthus breviflorus--So. Africa. Drakensberg Mts. Giant's Castle. 4 Oct 03. 034.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Angola, Cape Provinces, DR Congo, Eswatini, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Tanzania, 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

Not collected.

October 4, 2003

Location

South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal (Hibiscus Coast NU)

-31.006667, 30.177222

Location Remarks

Umtamvuna Nature Reserve, west of Port Edward. Rock outcrop in grassland along the south rim of the gorge.

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Amaryllidaceae

Genus

Cyrtanthus

Specific Epithet

breviflorus

Authorship

Harv.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Moderate

ED 10.4

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

#46,122 of 335,497

Top 14%

Extinction probability

11%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →