Tetragonia, WDS 34145--Chile. Playa Colcura. 19 Feb 2013. DSC02120 (95).JPG
Native to China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Kermadec Is., Korea, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Queensland, South Australia, Taiwan, Tasmania, Victoria, Vietnam, Western Australia; introduced into 69 botanical countries across Europe, Africa, Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, Pacific, Northern America, and Southern America (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Chile, Bio Bio, Concepcion (Lota, Chivilingo)
-37.144167, -73.170556
Location Remarks
Comuna Lota, Playa Colcura, S of Lota; sand beach and rocky shore at N end of beach. Sea level.
Collectors
W. Douglas Stevens, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, Olga Martha Montiel
Notes
On sand, shoots erect, succulent, stems and fruits red.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Aizoaceae
Genus
Tetragonia
Specific Epithet
tetragonoides
Authorship
(Pall.) Kuntze
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 1.4
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.1
Global rank
#257,917 of 335,497
Top 77%
Extinction probability
9%
