Taxonomy
Scientific Name
Euryops ursinoides B.Nord.
Higher Classification
Dicotyledons
Family
ASTERACEAE
National Status
Status and Criteria
Vulnerable D2
Assessment Date
2007/04/23
Assessor(s)
D. Raimondo, W. Berrington & R.C. Turner
Justification
Known from four locations, two are old locations from the Van Stadens Mountains at Longmore and Otterford forest stations, but these have not been relocated and may have been lost due to afforestation. A lack of fire at both these locations as well as at Van Stadens Nature Reserve pose a significant potential threat to this fire-dependent recruiter. Without fire, this species' habitat eventually becomes unsuitable afromontane forest.
Distribution
Endemism
South African endemic
Provincial distribution
Eastern Cape
Range
Van Stadens Mountains to Kouga Mountains.
Habitat and Ecology
Major system
Terrestrial
Major habitats
Algoa Sandstone Fynbos, Kouga Sandstone Fynbos
Description
Mesic fynbos on steep slopes, mostly on hillsides at low altitudes.
Threats
Parts of the Van Stadens Mountains have been afforested with exotic pine plantations in the past. As locality descriptions are not very precise, it is difficult to know if sub-populations have been lost or not, but over 80% of habitat in these areas has been transformed over the past 60 years. The species is apparently dependent on fire for recruitment, and quickly disappears in dense mature fynbos. Plants had not been seen in the Van Stadens Wildflower Reserve for over 50 years, but a few plants came up after a small area was brush cut in 2003. The reserve as well as small fragments of natural vegetation among plantations are seldom burnt due to the risk of damage to nearby properties. Within some areas that are never burnt, fynbos is turning into afromontane forest.
Population
Population trend
Stable
Conservation
Protected in the Van Stadens Wild Flower Local Authority Nature Reserve, although management practices do not favour this species.
Assessment History
Taxon assessed
Status and Criteria
Citation/Red List version
Euryops ursinoides B.Nord.VU D2Raimondo et al. (2009)
Euryops ursinoides B.Nord.VU D2Victor (2002)
Euryops ursinoides B.Nord.Indeterminate Hilton-Taylor (1996)
Euryops ursinoides B.Nord.Indeterminate 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.


Hilton-Taylor, C. 1996. Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.


Nordenstam, B. 1968. The genus Euryops. Part I. Taxonomy. Opera Botanica 20:7-409.


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.


Victor, J.E. and Dold, A.P. 2003. Threatened plants of the Albany Centre of Floristic Endemism, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 99:437-446.


Citation
Raimondo, D., Berrington, W. & Turner, R.C. 2007. Euryops ursinoides B.Nord. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/05/18

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