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Taxon

Vinca major L.

Protologue Sp. Pl. 1: 209. 1753 [1 May 1753]BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Vinca major--Italy. Abruzzo. Courtyard garden, lower monastery at Subiaco. 11 May 02. 049.jpg

Vinca major--Italy. Abruzzo. Courtyard garden, lower monastery at Subiaco. 11 May 02. 049.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Vinca major--Italy. Abruzzo. Courtyard garden, lower monastery at Subiaco. 11 May 02. 050.jpg

Vinca major--Italy. Abruzzo. Courtyard garden, lower monastery at Subiaco. 11 May 02. 050.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Albania, Bulgaria, East Aegean Is., France, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Sardegna, Sicilia, Transcaucasus, Türkiye; introduced into 80 botanical countries across Europe, Africa, Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, Australasia, Northern America, and Southern America (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

May 11, 2002

Location

Italy, Lazio, Rome (Subiaco)

41.916944, 13.118056

Location Remarks

St. Scolastica Monastery at Subiaco.

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Gentianales

Family

Apocynaceae

Genus

Vinca

Specific Epithet

major

Authorship

L.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 0.5

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

0.0

Global rank

#303,357 of 335,497

Top 91%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →