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Scientific Name | Erepsia ramosa L.Bolus |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | AIZOACEAE |
Synonyms | Erepsia roseo-alba L.Bolus |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Vulnerable B1ab(ii,iii,v) |
Assessment Date | 2007/09/11 |
Assessor(s) | N.A. Helme & D. Raimondo |
Justification | EOO<6500 km², a formerly very common species that has lost >90% of its habitat to wheat cultivation. Remaining subpopulations are severely fragmented, occurring on isolated renosterveld remnants, and continue to decline due to urban expansion on the Cape Flats, and at Malmesbury and Paarl. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Piketberg to Cape Flats. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Swartland Shale Renosterveld, Swartland Granite Renosterveld, Swartland Silcrete Renosterveld, Peninsula Sandstone Fynbos, Hawequas Sandstone Fynbos, Cape Winelands Shale Fynbos, Peninsula Granite Fynbos, Boland Granite Fynbos, Cape Flats Sand Fynbos, Atlantis Sand Fynbos, Lourensford Alluvium Fynbos, Swartland Alluvium Fynbos |
Description | Shale flats in renosterveld. |
Threats |
| Roughly 80% of this species' habitat has been transformed over the past 70 years due to agriculture. Urbanisation has also resulted in 10% of this species' habitat being lost over the past 200 years, ongoing loss to urbanization was observed by N. Helme on the Cape Flats; Durbanville, Malmesbury, Paarl over the past 5 years. |
Population |
Population trend | Decreasing |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Erepsia ramosa L.Bolus | VU B1ab(ii,iii,v) | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
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.
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 |
| Helme, N.A. & Raimondo, D. 2007. Erepsia ramosa L.Bolus. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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