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Scientific Name | Ficinia pygmaea Boeck. |
Higher Classification | Monocotyledons |
Family | CYPERACEAE |
Synonyms | Chamaexyphium dregeanum Steud. |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Data Deficient - Insufficient Information |
Assessment Date | 2022/05/09 |
Assessor(s) | M. Muasya, C.H. Stirton & C. Archer |
Justification | This species is known from a single collection made in 1830 in the Western Cape, South Africa. It is inadequately known and may be threatened by agriculture and is therefore assessed as Data Deficient. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | This species is only known from the type specimen from Lange Vallei, Western Cape. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Fynbos |
Description | No information is available on the habitat of this species. |
Threats |
| This species is inadequately known as there is limited distribution information available. It may well be threatened given that areas near the type locality have been converted into agricultural land. |
Population |
No population data are available.
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Population trend | Unknown |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Ficinia pygmaea Boeck. | NT B1ab(ii,iii,iv,v) | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Ficinia pygmaea Boeck. | Lower Risk - Least Concern | Victor (2002) | | Ficinia pygmaea Boeck. | Not Threatened | 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.
Hilton-Taylor, C. 1996. Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Muasya, A.M., Stirton, C.H. and Archer, C. 2020. Ficinia pygmaea is not conspecific with F. limosa, and a description of a new species of Ficinia (Cyperaceae) from South Africa. South African Journal of Botany 128:128-131.
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.
Victor, J.E. 2002. South Africa. In: J.S. Golding (ed), Southern African plant Red Data Lists. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report 14 (pp. 93-120), SABONET, Pretoria.
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Citation |
| Muasya, M., Stirton, C.H. & Archer, C. 2022. Ficinia pygmaea Boeck. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2024/10/06 |
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