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obtusa

Taxon

Barleria obtusa Nees

Protologue Linnaea 15(4): 358. 1841 [Aug 1841-Jan 1842]BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 070.jpg

Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 070.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 069.jpg

Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 069.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 071.jpg

Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 071.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 074.jpg

Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 074.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 088.jpg

Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 088.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 073.jpg

Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 073.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 075.jpg

Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 075.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 068.jpg

Barleria obtusa--So. Africa. Mpumalanga. Karino. Whyte Thorne Garden. 19 Mch 05. 068.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Northern Provinces; introduced into Western Australia (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 19, 2005

Location

South Africa, Mpumalanga (Whyte Thorne Private Garden)

0.579167, 9.332778

Location Remarks

Ca. 23 km E of Nelspruit, Karino Region, then S to Whyte Thorne Private Garden of Douglas McMurtry and Shane Burns.

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Acanthaceae

Genus

Barleria

Specific Epithet

obtusa

Authorship

Nees

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 1.7

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

0.2

Global rank

#201,196 of 335,497

Top 60%

Extinction probability

13%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →