Ephedra sarcocarpa Aitch. & Hemsl.

First published in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 3: 112 (1886)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is S. Afghanistan to SW. Pakistan. It grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/201714/9171972

[IUCN]

Forest, F. et al. 2018. Gymnosperms on the EDGE. Scientific Reports 8: 6053. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-24365-4.

Conservation: Ephedra sarcocarpa is rated as Least Concerned (LC) according to IUCN Red List criteria and has received a EDGE score of -8.54, which places it in position 1038 on the EDGE Gymnosperm list. It has a Evolutionary Distinctiveness of 3.9, ranked 977. More information on the EDGE Gymnosperm project here https://www.edgeofexistence.org.

[EDGE]

EDGE Gymnosperms
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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