Native to Albania, Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, NW. Balkan Pen., Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Tunisia, Türkiye; introduced into Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, California, Chile Central, Chile North, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Juan Fernández Is., Leeward Is., Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Oman, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Socotra, Texas, Yemen (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
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
Location
Italy, Tuscany (Giardino dei Semplici)
Location Remarks
Via Pier Antonio Micheli, 3, Firenze (Florence). On the campus of the University of Florence.
Collectors
No collectors specified
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Sapindales
Family
Rutaceae
Genus
Ruta
Specific Epithet
chalepensis
Authorship
L.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Moderate
ED 13.0
Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
1.1
Global rank
#38,867 of 335,497
Top 12%
Extinction probability
10%