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Scientific Name | Diascia aliciae Hiern |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | SCROPHULARIACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Endangered B1ab(iii,iv) |
Assessment Date | 2006/11/05 |
Assessor(s) | K.E. Steiner & D. Raimondo |
Justification | EOO < 200 km², known from less than five locations. It continues to decline due to habitat loss and degradation as a result of livestock overgrazing and wood harvesting. There is also habitat loss to road construction and small-scale subsistence crop cultivation. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Eastern Cape |
Range | Kentani. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Bhisho Thornveld |
Description | Along streams in damp sheltered places in forests. |
Threats |
| This species had not been seen in five years of sampling by Kim Steiner (pers. comm., 2005).
Only occurs in small forest patches, one of the patches has since been wiped out by a new road, degraded from grazing and wood collection. |
Population |
Population trend | Decreasing |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Diascia aliciae Hiern | EN B1ab(iii,iv) | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
Hiern, W.P. 1904. Scrophulariaceae. In: W.T. Thiselton-Dyer (ed). Flora Capensis IV Section II (Hydrophyllaceae to Pedalineae):121-420. Lovell Reeve & Co., Ltd., London.
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 |
| Steiner, K.E. & Raimondo, D. 2006. Diascia aliciae Hiern. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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