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Scientific Name | Albuca roodeae (E.Phillips) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt |
Higher Classification | Monocotyledons |
Family | HYACINTHACEAE |
Synonyms | Ornithogalum roodiae E.Phillips |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Data Deficient - Insufficient Information |
Assessment Date | 2012/05/03 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | A rare, range-restricted and very poorly known species that may be indistinct from Albuca suaveolens. It is potentially threatened by habitat loss to crop cultivation. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Vanrhynsdorp. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Succulent Karoo |
Description | Deep sand. |
Threats |
| This species is possibly threatened by habitat loss to crop cultivation (rooibos tea and other cash crops). |
Population |
Population trend | Unknown |
Notes |
| A rare and poorly known species formerly treated as a synonym of Ornithogalum suaveolens (Leighton 1944, Obermeyer 1978). Müller-Doblies and Müller-Doblies (1996), reinstated the species, but with some doubt, and it remains to be resolved. In a recent classification of the Ornithogaloideae (Manning et al. 2009) the species was transferred to the genus Albuca. |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Albuca roodeae (E.Phillips) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt | Data Deficient | 2012.1 | |
Bibliography |
Leighton, F.M. 1944. A revision of the South African species of Ornithogalum L. Parts I & II. Journal of South African Botany 10:83-122.
Manning, J.C., Forest, F., Devey, D.S., Fay, M.F. and Goldblatt, P. 2009. A molecular phylogeny and revised classification of Ornithogaloideae (Hyacinthaceae) based on an analysis of four plastid DNA regions. Taxon 58(1):77-107.
Müller-Doblies, U. and Müller-Doblies, D. 1996. Revisionula incompleta Ornithogalorum Austro-Africanorum (Hyacinthaceae). Feddes Repertorium 107(5-6):361-548.
Obermeyer, A.A. 1978. Ornithogalum: a revision of the southern African species. Bothalia 12(3):323-376.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. 2012. Albuca roodeae (E.Phillips) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/05/11 |
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