Native to New Guinea, Queensland (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Australia, Queensland (Danbulla)
-17.219867, 145.680856
Location Remarks
Coordinates are the median GPS position of 4 specimen photograph(s) taken 2011-09-24 and 2013-11-11 (90% of them within NaN km of it). Split from the legacy location "Tamborine Mountain" (cfbb1491-c56c-3135-9253-7ae1ac881637), which carried events from many places; not otherwise described.
Collectors
Bruce Gray, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Liana climbing up a tree. Staminate plant.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Pandanales
Family
Pandanaceae
Genus
Freycinetia
Specific Epithet
excelsa
Authorship
F.Muell.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Moderate
ED 11.2
Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
1.0
Global rank
#42,210 of 335,497
Top 13%
Extinction probability
11%