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Scientific Name | Festuca dracomontana H.P.Linder |
Higher Classification | Monocotyledons |
Family | POACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Data Deficient - Insufficient Information |
Assessment Date | 2013/05/29 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | An apparently rare and very poorly known species. It has been collected only twice in South Africa from two highly disjunct areas, and once from Lesotho, with the most recent collection dating from 1977. No precise locality details were given, and this species' habitat requirements are poorly understood. Not enough is known about its population status and trends to determine its status. |
Distribution |
Endemism | Not endemic to South Africa |
Provincial distribution | Gauteng, Limpopo |
Range | Haenertsburg, Pretoria and in Lesotho. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Grassland |
Description | Montane grassland. |
Threats |
| Quite possibly locally extinct due to habitat loss to urban expansion in the Pretoria area, where it was last collected in 1933. Around Haenertsburg it is likely to be threatened by habitat loss to timber plantations. |
Population |
Population trend | Unknown |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Festuca dracomontana H.P.Linder | Data Deficient | 2014.1 | | Festuca dracomontana H.P.Linder | VU D2 | 2013.1 | | Festuca dracomontana H.P.Linder | VU D2 | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Festuca dracomontana H.P.Linder | Lower Risk - Least Concern | Scott-Shaw (1999) | | Festuca dracomontana H.P.Linder | Rare | Hilton-Taylor (1996) | |
Bibliography |
Hilton-Taylor, C. 1996. Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Linder, H.P. 1986. POACEAE Diverse notes on Southern African Pooids. Bothalia 16(1):59-61.
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. 2013. Festuca dracomontana H.P.Linder. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/13 |
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