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aethiopicus

Taxon

Siphonochilus aethiopicus (Schweinf.) B.L.Burtt

Protologue Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 40(2): 372. 1982BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Siphonocheilus aethiopicus--So. Africa. Natal Bot. Gard., Pietermaritzberg. 27 Nov 02. 039.jpg

Siphonocheilus aethiopicus--So. Africa. Natal Bot. Gard., Pietermaritzberg. 27 Nov 02. 039.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

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Siphonocheilus aethiopicus--So. Africa. Natal Bot. Gard., Pietermaritzberg. 27 Nov 02. 041.jpg

Siphonocheilus aethiopicus--So. Africa. Natal Bot. Gard., Pietermaritzberg. 27 Nov 02. 041.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Siphonochilus aethiopicus--So. Africa. Natal Bot. Gard., Pietermrbg. CDav27 Nov 02. 39.jpg

Siphonochilus aethiopicus--So. Africa. Natal Bot. Gard., Pietermrbg. CDav27 Nov 02. 39.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Angola, Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Showing the global range from POWO; no georeferenced specimens for this taxon.

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

No collection number

November 27, 2002

Location

South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal (Natal National Botanical Garden)

Location Remarks

Mayor's Walk, Pietermaritzburg.

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Zingiberales

Family

Zingiberaceae

Genus

Siphonochilus

Specific Epithet

aethiopicus

Authorship

(Schweinf.) B.L.Burtt

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 4.9

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

0.4

Global rank

#115,538 of 335,497

Top 35%

Extinction probability

12%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →