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Scientific Name | Faurea recondita Rourke & V.R.Clark |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | PROTEACEAE |
Common Names | Kamdeboo Beechwood (e) |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Critically Rare |
Assessment Date | 2019/08/05 |
Assessor(s) | A.G. Rebelo, H. Mtshali & L. von Staden |
Justification | An endemic species that is known from a single site, but locally common. It has no severe threats, and is therefore not suspected to be in danger of extinction so is assessed as Least Concern. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Eastern Cape |
Range | This species is endemic to a small area in the Kamdeboo Mountains north of Aberdeen, Eastern Cape, South Africa. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Upper Karoo Hardeveld, Karoo Escarpment Grassland |
Description | It occurs on moist south-eastern slopes in dense mountain grassland with fynbos elements, particularly near forest margins. |
Threats |
| Faurea recondita occurs in a remote montane area where there is little human impact on the environment, and it has no severe threats. |
Population |
Only one large population of ±40 000 plants is known. The site has a moist micro-climate apparently unique in the Kamdeboo Mountains as well as in the rest of the Sneeuberg Complex, and other large subpopulations are unlikely to exist. An extensive botanical survey of the Sneeuberg Complex failed to record any other subpopulations. As there are no current severe threats to this species, the population is assumed to be stable.
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Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Faurea recondita Rourke & V.R.Clark | Critically Rare | 2014.1 | |
Bibliography |
Rourke, J.P., Clark, V.R. and Barker, N.P. 2013. Faurea recondita (Proteaceae): A new species from the Sneeuberg Centre of Endemism, South Africa. South African Journal of Botany 87:34-38.
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Citation |
| Rebelo, A.G., Mtshali, H. & von Staden, L. 2019. Faurea recondita Rourke & V.R.Clark. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/10 |
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