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Scientific Name | Albuca pseudobifolia Mart.-AzorÃn & M.B.Crespo |
Higher Classification | Monocotyledons |
Family | HYACINTHACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Least Concern |
Assessment Date | 2014/04/02 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden & A.P. Dold |
Justification | A range-restricted species (EOO 3588 km²), but not threatened. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Eastern Cape |
Range | Paterson to Kenton-on-Sea, Grahamstown and the Fish River Valley. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Albany Thicket, Savanna |
Description | Sandy soils in thicket and thornveld, 300-600 m. |
Threats |
| The area around Paterson, where this species is known from historical records, is now extensively converted to crop fields, and it is not known whether any subpopulations survive, and a second subpopulation near the Fish River is potentially threatened by habitat loss to expanding rural settlements. Most other records of this species are however from remote rural areas where the natural vegetation is still largely intact and there is little human pressure. Currently, less than 10% of this species' habitat is irreversibly modified. |
Population |
This species is currently known from only a few records (MartÃnez-AzorÃn et al. 2012), but is easily overlooked and fairly common within its range (A.P. Dold pers. comm. 2014). In spite of threats to some subpopulations, the majority of the population is not currently threatened and it is unlikely to decline to extinction.
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Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Albuca pseudobifolia Mart.-AzorÃn & M.B.Crespo | Least Concern | 2014.1 | |
Bibliography |
MartÃnez-AzorÃn, M., Crespo, M.B., Dold, A.P. and Barker, N.P. 2012. The identity of Albuca bifolia (Hyacinthaceae), and the description of two related new species, A. anisocrispa and A. pseudobifolia, from the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Systematic Botany 37(3):599-605.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. & Dold, A.P. 2014. Albuca pseudobifolia Mart.-AzorÃn & M.B.Crespo. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/05/11 |
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