Encephalartos bubalinus Melville

First published in Kew Bull. 12: 252 (1957)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is E. Tropical Africa. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41941/10606598

[IUCN]

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

Conservation: Encephalartos bubalinus is rated as Near Threatened (NT) according to IUCN Red List criteria and has received a EDGE score of -5.98, which places it in position 673 on the EDGE Gymnosperm list. It has a Evolutionary Distinctiveness of 50.61, ranked 1068. More information on the EDGE Gymnosperm project here https://www.edgeofexistence.org.

[EDGE]

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