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Scientific Name | Keetia gueinzii (Sond.) Bridson |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | RUBIACEAE |
Synonyms | Canthium gueinzii Sond., Keetia transvaalensis E.Phillips |
Common Names | Climbing Turkey-berry (e), Muthambeni (v) |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Least Concern |
Assessment Date | 2011/05/19 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | Widespread, common and not threatened. |
Distribution |
Endemism | Not endemic to South Africa |
Provincial distribution | Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga |
Range | Eastern Escarpment from the Soutpansberg southwards through Swaziland to Maputaland and KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape as far as East London. This species also extends northwards through Africa to Cameroon and Ethiopia. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Albany Thicket, Forest |
Description | Margins of evergreen forest, thicket and swamp forests. |
Threats |
| The species is used medicinally by the Luvale and Swazi (Tilney and Van Wyk 2009), but it is not commercially traded in large volumes. There are no other known significant threats to this species. |
Population |
The species is often locally common.
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Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Keetia gueinzii (Sond.) Bridson | Least Concern | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
Boon, R. 2010. Pooley's Trees of eastern South Africa. Flora and Fauna Publications Trust, Durban.
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.
Tilney, P.M. and Van Wyk, A.E. 2009. Taxonomy of the genus Keetia (Rubiaceae - subfam. Ixoroideae - tribe Vanguerieae) in southern Africa, with notes on bacterial symbiosis as well as the structure of colleters and the 'stylar head' complex. Bothalia 39(2):165-175.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. 2011. Keetia gueinzii (Sond.) Bridson. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/05/17 |
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