Taxonomy
Scientific Name
Nemesia micrantha Hiern
Higher Classification
Dicotyledons
Family
SCROPHULARIACEAE
National Status
Status and Criteria
Extinct
Assessment Date
2005/04/05
Assessor(s)
K.E. Steiner & J.E. Victor
Justification
Known from one collection at Hout Bay by Dodd in 1897. Dodd only saw one plant and he describes the site as pools near fish factory, this site has been developed. This species is therefore considered extinct.
Distribution
Endemism
South African endemic
Provincial distribution
Western Cape
Range
Hout Bay, Cape Peninsula.
Habitat and Ecology
Major system
Terrestrial
Major habitats
Fynbos
Description
Wet rocks.
Assessment History
Taxon assessed
Status and Criteria
Citation/Red List version
Nemesia micrantha HiernExtinct Raimondo et al. (2009)
Nemesia micrantha HiernEndangered Hilton-Taylor (1996)
Nemesia micrantha HiernIndeterminate Hall et al. (1980)
Bibliography

Goldblatt, P. and Manning, J.C. 2000. Cape Plants: A conspectus of the Cape Flora of South Africa. Strelitzia 9. National Botanical Institute, Cape Town.


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.


Helme, N.A. and Trinder-Smith, T.H. 2006. The endemic flora of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. South African Journal of Botany 72(2):205-210.


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.


Citation
Steiner, K.E. & Victor, J.E. 2005. Nemesia micrantha Hiern. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/05/15

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