| Scientific Name | Selago zuluensis Hilliard | Higher Classification | Dicotyledons | Family | SCROPHULARIACEAE |
National Status | Status and Criteria | Endangered B1ab(i,iii) | Assessment Date | 2015/01/13 | Assessor(s) | H. Mtshali | Justification | EOO 564 km², four known locations have been extensively transformed for sugarcane cultivation and urban development. There is an ongoing decline in habitat quality as a result of spreading alien invasive plants. |
Distribution | Endemism | South African endemic | Provincial distribution | KwaZulu-Natal | Range | Zululand, between Melmoth, Eshowe and Ngoye. |
Habitat and Ecology | Major system | Terrestrial | Major habitats | Moist Coast Hinterland Grassland, KwaZulu-Natal Coastal Belt Grassland | Description | Moist grasslands. |
Threats | | The grasslands where this species is known from are highly transformed, mainly by commercial sugarcane, forestry plantations and urban expansion, and this has probably caused extensive declines in species in the past, but the exact loss in terms of proportion of the population or habitat lost is not known. There is an ongoing decline in the habitat, mainly due to commercial farming. |
Population | Population trend | Unknown |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Selago zuluensis Hilliard | EN B1ab(i,iii) | 2017.1 | | Selago zuluensis Hilliard | Threatened | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography | Hilliard, O.M. 1995. New names in Selago. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 52:361-362.
Hilliard, O.M. 1999. The tribe Selagineae (Scrophulariaceae). Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh/Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh/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. 2015. Selago zuluensis Hilliard. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/18 |
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