Taxonomy
Scientific Name
Oxalis involuta T.M.Salter
Higher Classification
Dicotyledons
Family
OXALIDACEAE
National Status
Status and Criteria
Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Assessment Date
2012/11/02
Assessor(s)
L.L. Dreyer, K.C. Oberlander & D. Raimondo
Justification
Only known from the type, collected in 1935. The area where this species was collected has been extensively transformed for wheat cultivation. Despite extensive searches between 1998-2006 it has not been relocated, and is likely to be extinct.
Distribution
Endemism
South African endemic
Provincial distribution
Western Cape
Range
Porterville.
Habitat and Ecology
Major system
Terrestrial
Major habitats
Swartland Shale Renosterveld
Description
Renosterveld, 175m.
Threats
Habitat loss
Population
Population trend
Unknown
Assessment History
Taxon assessed
Status and Criteria
Citation/Red List version
Oxalis involuta T.M.SalterCritically Endangered (Possibly Extinct) Raimondo et al. (2009)
Oxalis involuta T.M.SalterRare Hilton-Taylor (1996)
Oxalis involuta T.M.SalterRare Hall et al. (1980)
Bibliography

Goldblatt, P. and Manning, J.C. 2000. Cape Plants: A conspectus of the Cape Flora of South Africa. Strelitzia 9. National Botanical Institute, Cape Town.


Hall, A.V., De Winter, M., De Winter, B. and Van Oosterhout, S.A.M. 1980. Threatened plants of southern Africa. South African National Scienctific Programmes Report 45. CSIR, Pretoria.


Hilton-Taylor, C. 1996. Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.


Raimondo, D., von Staden, L., Foden, W., Victor, J.E., Helme, N.A., Turner, R.C., Kamundi, D.A. and Manyama, P.A. 2009. Red List of South African Plants. Strelitzia 25. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.


Citation
Dreyer, L.L., Oberlander, K.C. & Raimondo, D. 2012. Oxalis involuta T.M.Salter. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/02/11

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