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Scientific Name | Elegia tectorum (L.f.) Moline & H.P.Linder |
Higher Classification | Monocotyledons |
Family | RESTIONACEAE |
Synonyms | Chondropetalum tectorum (L.f.) Raf., Dovea cylindrostachya Mast., Dovea tectorum (L.f.) Mast., Restio tectorum L.f. |
Common Names | Dakriet (a) |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Least Concern |
Assessment Date | 2015/07/04 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | A widespread species that is still common across most of its range in spite of extensive habitat loss, and not yet in danger of extinction. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape |
Range | Bokkeveld Escarpment to the Cape Flats and eastwards to Port Elizabeth. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Fynbos |
Description | Marshes and seeps on deep sandy soils on coastal or lowland flats, 10-600 m. |
Threats |
| Habitat loss to urban expansion, coastal development, crop cultivation and competition from unmanaged alien invasive plants are the main threats to this species. |
Population |
This species has declined extensively on the Cape Flats due to urban expansion, but is still fairly common in isolated remnants across the Cape Peninsula and Cape Flats. It has also declined due to coastal development between Rooiels and Hermanus, but is still common on the Agulhas Plain. It has become rare on the coastal lowlands between Piketberg and Bloubergstrand due to habitat loss to agricultural expansion. This species is however somewhat resilient to disturbance, and typically proliferates in roadside ditches on sandy plains.
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Population trend | Decreasing |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Elegia tectorum (L.f.) Moline & H.P.Linder | Least Concern | 2015.1 | |
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.
Linder, H.P. 2011. The African Restionaceae: an Interactive Key identification and description system. Version 6. http://www.systbot.uzh.ch/Bestimmungsschluessel/Restionaceae_en.html. Downloaded.
Moline, P.M., Linder, H.P. and Manos, P.S. 2005. Molecular phylogeny and generic delimitation in the Elegia group (Restionaceae, South Africa) based on a complete taxon sampling and four chloroplast DNA regions. Systematic Botany 30(4):759-772.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. 2015. Elegia tectorum (L.f.) Moline & H.P.Linder. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2024/09/14 |
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