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Scientific Name | Cryptocarya liebertiana Engl. |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | LAURACEAE |
Synonyms | Cryptocarya siebertiana Burtt Davy |
Common Names | Tropical Quince (e), Tropical Wild-quince (e), Tropiese Kweper (a), Wild Quince (e), Wildekweper (a) |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Data Deficient - Taxonomically Problematic |
Assessment Date | 2015/07/16 |
Assessor(s) | H. Mtshali & L. von Staden |
Justification | This species is poorly known in South Africa, and is possibly not sufficiently distinct from C. latifolia to warrant recognition as a separate taxon, or records attributed to this species may even be hybrids. |
Distribution |
Endemism | Not endemic to South Africa |
Provincial distribution | KwaZulu-Natal |
Range | Nkandla Forest, Ngoye Forest, and forests around Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Also occurring in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Forest |
Description | Mixed evergreen forest, evergreen rainforest and submontane gully forest. |
Threats |
| All Cryptocarya species are used medicinally, and many species are in decline or facing extinction as a result of over-exploitation. The ground bark of. C. liebertiana is mixed with crocodile fat and used to treat chest troubles (Diniz 1997). It is also potentially threatened by habitat degradation due to deforestation for subsistence use and alien plants (parasites). |
Population |
Population trend | Unknown |
Notes |
| C. liebertiana is difficult to distinguish from C. transvaalensis, with which it was confused in the past (Coates-Palgrave 2002, Diniz 1997), as well as C. latifolia (Diniz 1997). Diniz (1997) suggests that C. liebertiana from East Africa is perhaps only a subspecies of C. latifolia. Boon (2010) doubts whether scattered records from forests in KwaZulu-Natal are C. liebertiana, and suggests that they may be hybrids of C. woodii and C. latifolia. |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Cryptocarya liebertiana Engl. | Data Deficient (Taxonomically Problematic) | 2015.1 | | Cryptocarya liebertiana Engl. | Threatened | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
Boon, R. 2010. Pooley's Trees of eastern South Africa. Flora and Fauna Publications Trust, Durban.
Coates Palgrave, M. 2002. Keith Coates Palgrave Trees of southern Africa. 3rd Edition. Struik, Cape Town.
Diniz, M.A. 1997. Lauraceae. In: G.V. Pope (ed). Flora Zambesiaca 9 (Part 2):45-59. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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 |
| Mtshali, H. & von Staden, L. 2015. Cryptocarya liebertiana Engl. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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