Native to Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Jawa, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Vietnam, Thua Thien-Hue, Phu Loc
16.198889, 107.858611
Location Remarks
Bach Maa National Park, summit trail.
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Santalales
Family
Balanophoraceae
Genus
Rhopalocnemis
Specific Epithet
phalloides
Authorship
Jungh.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
High
ED 29.2
Sits on a long, isolated branch of the plant tree of life, with relatively few close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
2.5
Global rank
#10,133 of 335,497
Top 4%
Extinction probability
11%