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Scientific Name | Vanilla roscheri Rchb.f. |
Higher Classification | Monocotyledons |
Family | ORCHIDACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Near Threatened* D2 |
Assessment Date | 2022/06/20 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden & J.E. Victor |
Justification | Known from one location in South Africa. It is potentially threatened by subsistence agriculture, expanding informal settlements and alien plant invasion. The national assessment is downgraded from VU to NT as other subpopulations just across the border in Mozambique could serve as sources of propagules to South African locations. |
Distribution |
Endemism | Not endemic to South Africa |
Provincial distribution | KwaZulu-Natal |
Range | This species is widespread in eastern tropical Africa, from Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique. There is a single record from South Africa reported from Maputaland, near Lake Sibaya. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Indian Ocean Coastal Belt |
Description | Plants grow in coastal bush and forest, and in grassy fields with scattered trees 1-100 m. |
Threats |
| This species is potentially threatened by agriculture, informal settlements and alien plants. It is additionally threatened by medicinal plant harvesting and has been observed in muthi markets such as Ezimbuzini in Durban (MacDonald and Duckworth). |
Population |
Population trend | Stable |
Conservation |
| It is conserved in the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park. |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Vanilla roscheri Rchb.f. | NT D2 | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Vanilla roscheri Rchb.f. | EN B1B2abc | Victor (2002) | |
Bibliography |
La Croix, I. and Cribb, P.J. 1995. Orchidaceae. In: G.V. Pope (ed). Flora Zambesiaca 11 (Part 1):1-320. Flora Zambesiaca Managing Committee, London.
Linder, H.P. and Kurzweil, H. 1999. Orchids of southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
McDonald, G. and Duckworth, A. 1995. The uses of orchids in traditional medicine. South African Orchid Journal 25(3):75-79.
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.
Ward, M.C. 1984. Vanilla roscheri: first South African recording of Vanilla. South African Orchid Journal 15(2):48.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. & Victor, J.E. 2022. Vanilla roscheri Rchb.f. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/01/25 |
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