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decumbens

Taxon

Corbichonia decumbens (Forssk.) Exell

Protologue J. Bot. 73: 80. 1935BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 130.jpg

Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 130.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 125.jpg

Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 125.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 128.jpg

Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 128.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 126.jpg

Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 126.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 129.jpg

Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 129.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 132.jpg

Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 132.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 127.jpg

Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 127.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 131.jpg

Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 131.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 134.jpg

Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 134.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 135.jpg

Corbichonia decumbens--So.Africa. Mpumal. R577 N of Lydenburg. 16 Mch 05. 135.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Chad, Djibouti, DR Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, India, Iran, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, 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 16, 2005

Location

South Africa, Mpumalanga (Umjindi NU)

-25.795278, 31.085278

Location Remarks

Southeast of Barberton on highway R40 toward Swaziland. Saddleback Pass in Moodie Mountains.

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Corbichoniaceae

Genus

Corbichonia

Specific Epithet

decumbens

Authorship

(Forssk.) Exell

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Moderate

ED 20.8

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

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

1.8

Global rank

#18,257 of 335,497

Top 6%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →