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Scientific Name | Cryptocarya wyliei Stapf |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | LAURACEAE |
Synonyms | Cryptocarya sutherlandii Stapf |
Common Names | Inqayana (x), Ixobothi (x), Red Quince (e), Red-haired Laurel (e), Red-haired Wild-quince (e), Rooikweper (a), Umngcabe (z), Umnqayane (z), Umnqayane (x), Umxaleba (x) |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Near Threatened B1ab(iii,v) |
Assessment Date | 2007/11/27 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden & A.T.D. Abbott |
Justification | EOO 19 600 km², more than 10 locations remain in a highly threatened and restricted habitat. There is a continuing decline in quality and extent of habitat and number of mature individuals as a result of too frequent and intense fires, crop cultivation, forestry, urban expansion and alien plant invasion. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal |
Range | Pondoland, from Ntsubane to Oribi Gorge. Scattered subpopulations occur further north in KwaZulu-Natal as far as Ngoye and Nkandla. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Pondoland-Ugu Sandstone Coastal Sourveld |
Description | Scarp forest. Occurs on forest margins, in fringes of riverine forest, thicket and coastal bush. |
Threats |
| The main threat to Pondoland woody species restricted to forest margins is too frequent and intense grassland fires that are causing forest margins to recede (D. Styles, C.R. Scott-Shaw pers. obs.) This threat is affecting forest margins mainly in the areas between Umtamvuna and Mkambati Nature Reserves, and around Lusikisiki (Ntsubane).
From Port Edward to Oribi the largest remaining areas of forest are fairly well protected within the Umtamvuna and Oribi Gorge Nature Reserves, however, some areas of forest above the edges of these deep gorges have undoubtedly been cleared for forestry and agriculture (mainly sugarcane) in the past. There is also extensive agricultural transformation on and around the Noodsberg, and as the forest here is not protected in a reserve, these forests may have declined in the past and may continue to be threatened.
Smaller forest patches outside of reserves are generally threatened by the effects of fragmentation and isolation within a transformed landscape as well as alien invasive encroachment.
The two northernmost subpopulations of this species (Ngoye and Nkandla) is not seriously threatened as these forests are protected. |
Population |
Population trend | Decreasing |
Conservation |
| Protected in the Ngoye Forest Reserve, Nkandla Forest Reserve, Kranzkloof Nature Reserve, Oribi Gorge Nature Reserve, Umtamvuna Nature Reserve and Mkambati Nature Reserve. |
Notes |
| Fruit is edible and tasty and can be used to make stews or jams (Coates Palgrave 2002). |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Cryptocarya wyliei Stapf | NT B1ab(iii,v) | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Cryptocarya wyliei Stapf | Lower Risk - Least Concern | Scott-Shaw (1999) | | Cryptocarya wyliei Stapf | Not Threatened | Hilton-Taylor (1996) | | Cryptocarya wyliei Stapf | Rare | Hall et al. (1980) | |
Bibliography |
Boon, R. 2010. Pooley's Trees of eastern South Africa. Flora and Fauna Publications Trust, Durban.
Hall, A.V., De Winter, M., De Winter, B. and Van Oosterhout, S.A.M. 1980. Threatened plants of southern Africa. South African National Scienctific Programmes Report 45. CSIR, Pretoria.
Hilton-Taylor, C. 1996. Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
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.
Scott-Shaw, C.R. 1999. Rare and threatened plants of KwaZulu-Natal and neighbouring regions. KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service, Pietermaritzburg.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. & Abbott, A.T.D. 2007. Cryptocarya wyliei Stapf. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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