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Scientific Name | Ixia ecklonii Goldblatt & J.C.Manning |
Higher Classification | Monocotyledons |
Family | IRIDACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct) |
Assessment Date | 2012/11/02 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | This species is only known from the type collection, made in the early 19th century. Despite the area where it was last seen being botanically well explored, it has not been recorded again. The area is now extensively transformed to citrus orchards, and this species is possibly extinct. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Olifants River Valley near Citrusdal. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Fynbos |
Description | Unknown. |
Threats |
| This species is possibly extinct due to habitat loss to agricultural and urban expansion. |
Population |
Ixia ecklonii is known from a single collection from the early 19th century. No specific locality is given, but it was presumably collected from the Olifants River Valley north of Citrusdal. This area is botanically well explored, and yet this species was never recorded again (Goldblatt and Manning 2011).
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Population trend | Unknown |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Ixia ecklonii Goldblatt & J.C.Manning | Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct) | 2013.1 | | Ixia ecklonii Goldblatt & J.C.Manning | Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct) | 2013.1 | |
Bibliography |
Goldblatt, P. and Manning, J.C. 2011. Systematics of the southern African genus Ixia (Iridaceae). 3. Sections Hyalis and Morphixia. Bothalia 41(1):83-134.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. 2012. Ixia ecklonii Goldblatt & J.C.Manning. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/05/31 |
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