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Scientific Name | Aspalathus millefolia R.Dahlgren |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | FABACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Vulnerable B1ab(ii,iii,v) |
Assessment Date | 2007/10/26 |
Assessor(s) | N.A. Helme & D. Raimondo |
Justification | EOO 5145 km², 10 locations are known, but some may already be locally extinct. Declining due to habitat loss to the cultivation of wheat, deciduous fruit, proteas and vineyard expansion. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Houwhoek to Riversdale. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Eastern Ruens Shale Renosterveld, Western Ruens Shale Renosterveld, Garden Route Shale Fynbos, Elgin Shale Fynbos, Elim Ferricrete Fynbos, Swellendam Silcrete Fynbos |
Description | Shale slopes and flats. |
Threats |
| The most severe threat to this species is past and ongoing habitat loss to agriculture: wheat cultivation in the Overberg, deciduous fruit in the Elgin Valley and proteas for the cut flower industry on the Agulhas Plain. In addition competition from alien invasive plants are also affecting subpopulations on the Agulhas Plain and habitat loss to urban expansion may threaten subpopulations around Swellendam and Riversdale. |
Population |
Occurs as scattered subpopulations in renosterveld fragments. This species has been overlooked in the past and is known from only a few collections, but is also becoming rarer due to habitat loss (Dahlgren 1988).
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Population trend | Decreasing |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Aspalathus millefolia R.Dahlgren | VU B1ab(ii,iii,v) | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
Dahlgren, R. 1988. Crotalarieae (Aspalathus). In: O.A. Leistner (ed). Flora of southern Africa 16 Fabaceae, Part 3 Papilionoideae, Fascicle 6:1-430. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
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.
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.
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Citation |
| Helme, N.A. & Raimondo, D. 2007. Aspalathus millefolia R.Dahlgren. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/05/16 |
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