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Scientific Name | Annesorhiza elsiae Vessio, Tilney & B.-E.van Wyk |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | APIACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Vulnerable D2 |
Assessment Date | 2012/10/08 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | One known location is potentially threatened by habitat loss, competition from alien invasive plants and overgrazing. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Western slopes of Audenberg Ridge Peaks north of Worcester. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Breede Shale Fynbos |
Description | Shale, western slopes. |
Threats |
| Potentially threatened by habitat loss to expanding vineyards and orchards, development, overgrazing and competition from alien invasive plants. |
Population |
Known from a single collection, made in 1962.
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Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Annesorhiza elsiae Vessio, Tilney & B.-E.van Wyk | VU D2 | 2013.1 | |
Bibliography |
Magee, A.R., Van Wyk, B.E., Tilney, P.M. and Vessio, N. 2011. A taxonomic revision of the Annesorhiza triternata group (Apiaceae, Apioideae): the transfer of Peucedanum triternatum and P. filicaule and the description of five new species. Systematic Botany 36(2):508-519.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. 2012. Annesorhiza elsiae Vessio, Tilney & B.-E.van Wyk. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/05/11 |
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