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Scientific Name | Zyrphelis outeniquae (Fourc.) Zinnecker-Wiegand |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | ASTERACEAE |
Synonyms | Aster outeniquae Fourc. |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Vulnerable D2 |
Assessment Date | 2012/11/07 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | A widespread, but rarely recorded species, currently known from only three locations, and potentially threatened by competition from alien invasive plants. It is possibly more common, but more surveys are needed to confirm this. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Eastern Cape, Western Cape |
Range | Outeniqua and Tsitsikamma Mountains. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Tsitsikamma Sandstone Fynbos, South Outeniqua Sandstone Fynbos |
Description | Moist areas near streams and drainage lines on sandstone slopes. |
Threats |
| The subpopulation on the Outeniqua Mountains is potentially threatened by competition from alien invasive pine seedlings spreading from nearby plantations, and on the Kareedouw Pass it is also potentially threatened by alien invasive plants. A third subpopulation on Witelskop is not threatened. |
Population |
A rare and very poorly known species, last recorded in 1971, but also suspected to be overlooked. It has been recorded from two highly disjunct areas about 150 km apart on the Outeniqua Mountains near George and the Tsitsikamma Mountains near Kareedouw, but is likely to also occur in intervening areas.
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Population trend | Unknown |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Zyrphelis outeniquae (Fourc.) Zinnecker-Wiegand | VU D2 | 2013.1 | |
Bibliography |
Ortiz, S. and Zinnecker-Wiegand, U. 2011. Valid publication of names in Astereae originally proposed in 1990 in a University of Munich dissertation. Taxon 60(4):1194-1198.
Zinnecker-Wiegand, U. 1990. Revision der Südafrikanischen Astereengattungen Mairia und Zyrphelis. Unpublished PhD, Ludwig Maximillians Universität, München.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. 2012. Zyrphelis outeniquae (Fourc.) Zinnecker-Wiegand. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/01/25 |
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