Asparagaceae
Eriospermum

Eriospermum adpressifolium O.Weber

First published in Kew Bull. 70(2)-28: 6 (2015)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tanzania. It is a tuberous geophyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Tanzania

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Kew Bulletin

  • Bachman, S., Moat, J., Hill, A., de la Torre, J. & Scott, B. (2011). Supporting Red List threat assessments with GeoCAT: geospatial conservation assessment tool. ZooKeys 150: 117 – 126. doi:  10.3897/zookeys.150.2109
  • Beentje, H. J. & Mesfin Tadesse (2004). A new species of Emilia (Compositae: Senecioneae) from western Tanzania. Kew Bull. 59: 325 – 326.
  • Beentje, H. J., Jeffrey, C. & Hind, D. J. N. (2005). Compositae III. In: H. J. Beentje & S. A. Ghazanfar (ed.), Flora of Tropical East Africa. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Govaerts, R. (2014). World Checklist of Asparagaceae. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp (accessed 14/07/2014).
  • IUCN (2012). IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. Version 3.1. Second edition. Gland and Cambridge.
  • Lisowski, S. (1991). Les Asteraceae dans la flored’Afriquecentrale vol. 2. Fragm. Florist. Geobot. Ann. 36, 1, suppl. 1: 251 – 627.
  • Lock, J. M. (1999). Down to earth: Oligophyllousplatyphyllousmonocotyleclons. In: J. Timberlake & S. Kativu (eds), African Plants: Biodiversity, Taxonomy and Uses, pp. 405 – 408. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Perry, P. L. (1994). A revision of the Genus Eriospermum (Eriospermaceae). Contr. Bolus Herb. 17: 1 – 320.
  • Weber, O. (2014). Eriospermum — an interactive key. In: http://e-monocot.org/ (accessed 14/07/2014).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
von Blittersdorff, R. [57a] Tanzania K001581238 Paratype Yes
von Blittersdorff, R. [57] Tanzania K001562198 Holotype Yes
Blittersdorff, R. [42] Tanzania K001562754 Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0