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Scientific Name | Ixia confusa (G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning |
Higher Classification | Monocotyledons |
Family | IRIDACEAE |
Synonyms | Ixia micrandra Baker var. confusa G.J.Lewis |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Least Concern |
Assessment Date | 2014/04/08 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden, P. Goldblatt & J.C. Manning |
Justification | A widespread and common species, which although threatened in parts of its range, is not yet in danger of extinction. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Riviersonderend, Langeberg, Groot Swartberg and Outeniqua mountain ranges, and southwards across the Overberg to the southern Cape coast. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Fynbos |
Description | Loamy clay in transitional renosterveld vegetation on lower, moist, south-facing slopes. |
Threats |
| Some subpopulations occur in areas of extensive timber plantations, and this species is likely to have lost habitat to plantations in the past, but as plantations are no longer expanding, this threat has ceased. Natural vegetation surrounding plantation areas are however densely infested by unmanaged alien invasive plants, which may be causing localized population decline in some areas. Subpopulations in the Overberg are fragmented due to habitat loss to crop cultivation, and those on the coast are threatened by competition from alien invasive plants and coastal development. |
Population |
Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Ixia confusa (G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning | Least Concern | 2014.1 | | Ixia micrandra Baker var. confusa G.J.Lewis | Least Concern | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
Goldblatt, P. and Manning, J.C. 2012. Systematics of the southern African genus Ixia (Iridaceae:Crocoideae): 4. Revision of sect. Dichone. Bothalia 42(2):87-110.
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.
Vlok, J. and Schutte-Vlok, A.L. 2010. Plants of the Klein Karoo. Umdaus Press, Hatfield.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L., Goldblatt, P. & Manning, J.C. 2014. Ixia confusa (G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/05/09 |
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