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Ephedra likiangensis; photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Ephedra likiangensis Florin

Ephedraceae · China South-Central, Tibet

No habitat climate
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Ephedra likiangensis, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsEphedra likiangensis, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsEphedra likiangensis, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsEphedra likiangensis, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsEphedra likiangensis, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 6 photographs ›

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 44 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 44 of the 44 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Tibet · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker27.154, 100.181 · in the densest population, 23 records (52% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 44 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 19 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 89 km away. 5 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 44 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 44 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5).

Other Ephedra 32 in the reference

Ephedra altissima Ephedra altissima High-climbing jointfir Photo: CC BY, Tom FieldEphedra americana Ephedra americana American Ephedra Photo: CC BY, Staci OréEphedra antisyphilitica Ephedra antisyphilitica Clapweed Photo: CC BY, Jo RobertsEphedra aspera Ephedra aspera Boundary ephedra Photo: CC BY, Martin PurdyEphedra breana Ephedra breana Ephedraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedEphedra californica Ephedra californica California ephedra Photo: CC BY, Jose Luis Leon de la LuzEphedra chilensis Ephedra chilensis Ephedraceae Photo: CC BY, Gabriela CartesEphedra ciliata Ephedra ciliata Shrubby Horsetail Photo: CC BY, Chase MatheyEphedra distachya Ephedra distachya Sea-grape Photo: CC BY, Наталья ПикаловаEphedra equisetina Ephedra equisetina Mongolian ephedra Photo: CC BY, kirinziEphedra fasciculata Ephedra fasciculata Arizona Joint-fir Photo: CC0, author not statedEphedra fedtschenkoae Ephedra fedtschenkoae Ephedraceae Photo: CC0, Daderot all 33 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Ephedra likiangensis f. likiangensis; Ephedra saxatilis subsp. mairei. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Ephedraceae
Described by
Florin
Native to
China South-Central, Tibet
Wild records
44 in range · 19 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 18 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (18 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2244 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 15 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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