Taxonomy
Scientific Name
Heliophila tabularis Wolley-Dod
Higher Classification
Dicotyledons
Family
BRASSICACEAE
National Status
Status and Criteria
Vulnerable D2
Assessment Date
2007/05/17
Assessor(s)
D. Raimondo & R.C. Turner
Justification
Last collected in 1970. There is one old collection with a vague location and one collection from Froggy Pond (near Simon's Town), the later subpopulation is potentially threatened by housing expansion and alien plant invasion.
Distribution
Endemism
South African endemic
Provincial distribution
Western Cape
Range
Cape Peninsula.
Habitat and Ecology
Major system
Terrestrial
Major habitats
Peninsula Sandstone Fynbos
Description
Sandstone slopes.
Threats
Potentially threatened by competition from alien invasive plants.
Population

A very rare and localized species, last collected in 1970.


Population trend
Stable
Assessment History
Taxon assessed
Status and Criteria
Citation/Red List version
Heliophila tabularis Wolley-DodVU D2Raimondo et al. (2009)
Heliophila tabularis Wolley-DodRare Hilton-Taylor (1996)
Heliophila tabularis Wolley-DodRare Hall et al. (1980)
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.


Hall, A.V., De Winter, M., De Winter, B. and Van Oosterhout, S.A.M. 1980. Threatened plants of southern Africa. South African National Scienctific Programmes Report 45. CSIR, Pretoria.


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.


Marais, W. 1970. Cruciferae. In: L.E. Codd, B. De Winter, D.J.B. Killick and H.B. Rycroft (eds). Flora of southern Africa 13:1-118. Botanical Research 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.


Citation
Raimondo, D. & Turner, R.C. 2007. Heliophila tabularis Wolley-Dod. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/05/26

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