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Scientific Name | Erica margaritacea Sol. |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | ERICACEAE |
Common Names | Heuning-heath (a), Heuningheide (a), Honey-scented Heath (e) |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Critically Endangered A2ac; B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii) |
Assessment Date | 2007/02/07 |
Assessor(s) | E.G.H. Oliver, R.C. Turner, D. Raimondo & D. Pillay |
Justification | Historically occurred from Fish Hoek to the Cape Flats and Stellenbosch. There has been at least an 80% decline in habitat over the past 90 years (generation length is probably longer than 30 years) as a result of urban expansion throughout its former range. There is an continuing decline of habitat quality due to alien plant invasion and eutrophication at the only remaining subpopulation on Kenilworth Racecourse. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Cape Flats. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Cape Flats Sand Fynbos |
Description | Fynbos, in wetland areas and seasonally wet depressions. |
Threats |
| The entire former distribution range of this species has been transformed as a result of urban and industrial expansion, infrastructure development and degraded due to alien invasive plant invasion, and an estimated 80% of its habitat is estimated to have been lost in the past 90 years. |
Population |
A few plants survive on a small fragment of natural lowland fynbos in the middle of Kenilworth Racecource.
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Population trend | Decreasing |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Erica margaritacea Sol. | CR A2ac; B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii) | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Erica margaritacea Sol. | Endangered | Hilton-Taylor (1996) | |
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.
Helme, N.A. and Trinder-Smith, T.H. 2006. The endemic flora of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. South African Journal of Botany 72(2):205-210.
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.
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Citation |
| Oliver, E.G.H., Turner, R.C., Raimondo, D. & Pillay, D. 2007. Erica margaritacea Sol. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/07/03 |
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