| Scientific Name | Phoenix reclinata Jacq. | Higher Classification | Monocotyledons | Family | ARECACEAE | Common Names | Cape Date Palm (e), Coffee Palm (e), Feather Palm (e), Idama (z), Idama (x), Isundu (z), Isundu (x), Kafferkoffie (a), Mopalamo (ns), Mosêfa (tw), Mutshevho (v), Mutzhema (v), Palmboom (a), Rivierpalm (a), Tsaro (tw), Wild Date (e), Wild Date Palm (e), Wilde-dadelboom (a), Wildedatel (a), Wilde-koffie (a) |
National Status | Status and Criteria | Least Concern | Assessment Date | 2017/08/28 | Assessor(s) | L. von Staden | Justification | This species is widespread, common and not in danger of extinction. It is therefore assessed as Least Concern. |
Distribution | Endemism | Not endemic to South Africa | Provincial distribution | Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga | Range | It is widespread across eastern South Africa, extending northwards throughout tropical Africa as far as Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula. It also occurs in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. |
Habitat and Ecology | Major system | Terrestrial | Major habitats | Hamburg Dune Thicket, Maputaland Coastal Belt, KwaZulu-Natal Coastal Belt Grassland, Muzi Palm Veld and Wooded Grassland, Swamp Forest, Pondoland-Ugu Sandstone Coastal Sourveld, Subtropical Seashore Vegetation, Lowveld Riverine Forest, Northern Coastal Forest, Scarp Forest, South Eastern Coastal Thornveld, Sand Forest, Southern Lebombo Bushveld, Maputaland Wooded Grassland, Mangrove Forest, Transkei Coastal Belt, Zululand Lowveld, Ironwood Dry Forest, Zululand Coastal Thornveld, Maputaland Pallid Sandy Bushveld, Subtropical Alluvial Vegetation, Legogote Sour Bushveld, Kasouga Dune Thicket, KwaZulu-Natal Hinterland Thornveld, Eastern Valley Bushveld, Subtropical Dune Thicket, Cape Seashore Vegetation, Umtiza Forest Thicket, KwaZulu-Natal Coastal Belt Thornveld, Grahamstown Grassland Thicket, Albany Valley Thicket, Makatini Clay Thicket, Bhisho Thornveld, KwaZulu-Natal Sandstone Sourveld, Phalaborwa-Timbavati Mopaneveld, Gabbro Grassy Bushveld, Tshokwane-Hlane Basalt Lowveld, Delagoa Lowveld, Dry Coast Hinterland Grassland, Northern Zululand Sourveld, Albany Mesic Thicket, Western Maputaland Clay Bushveld, Western Maputaland Sandy Bushveld, Tembe Sandy Bushveld, Makuleke Sandy Bushveld, Soutpansberg Mountain Bushveld, Moist Coast Hinterland Grassland, Granite Lowveld | Description | Plants grow in seasonally inundated places, particularly along watercourses and the edges of swamps, more rarely in drier grasslands and riverine forest, 0-1500 m. |
Population | Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
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Citation/Red List version | | Phoenix reclinata Jacq. | Least Concern | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography | Barrow, S.C. 1998. A monograph of Phoenix L. (Palmae: Coryphoideae). Kew Bulletin 53(3):513-575.
Boon, R. 2010. Pooley's Trees of eastern South Africa. Flora and Fauna Publications Trust, Durban.
Coates Palgrave, M. 2002. Keith Coates Palgrave Trees of southern Africa. 3rd Edition. Struik, Cape Town.
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.
Schmidt, E., Lotter, M. and McCleland, W. 2002. Trees and shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park. Jacana, Johannesburg.
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Citation | | von Staden, L. 2017. Phoenix reclinata Jacq. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/01/18 |
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