Taxonomy
Scientific Name
Ixia stolonifera G.J.Lewis
Higher Classification
Monocotyledons
Family
IRIDACEAE
National Status
Status and Criteria
Data Deficient - Insufficient Information
Assessment Date
2015/06/06
Assessor(s)
P. Goldblatt, J.C. Manning & L. von Staden
Justification
This species is known from several collections made on the same day in 1946, but never recorded again. Its precise habitat requirements are unknown. If it occurs on clay soils or lower slopes it is likely to be threatened or possibly extinct due to habitat loss to agricultural expansion.
Distribution
Endemism
South African endemic
Provincial distribution
Western Cape
Range
Montagu.
Habitat and Ecology
Major system
Terrestrial
Major habitats
Fynbos
Description
Shaded mountain slopes.
Population
Population trend
Unknown
Assessment History
Taxon assessed
Status and Criteria
Citation/Red List version
Ixia stolonifera G.J.LewisData Deficient Raimondo et al. (2009)
Ixia stolonifera G.J.LewisIndeterminate Hilton-Taylor (1996)
Ixia stolonifera G.J.LewisIndeterminate Hall et al. (1980)
Bibliography

De Vos, M.P. 1999. Ixia. In: O.A. Leistner (ed). Flora of Southern Africa 7 Iridaceae Part 2: Ixioideae, Fascicle 1: Ixieae:3-87. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.


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.


Goldblatt, P. and Manning, J.C. 2016. Systematics of the southern African genus Ixia L. (Iridaceae): 5. Synopsis of section Ixia, including five new species. South African Journal of Botany 104:175-198.


Hall, A.V., De Winter, M., De Winter, B. and Van Oosterhout, S.A.M. 1980. Threatened plants of southern Africa. South African National Scienctific Programmes Report 45. CSIR, Pretoria.


Hilton-Taylor, C. 1996. Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.


Lewis, G.J. 1962. South African Iridaceae. The genus Ixia. Journal of South African Botany 28:45-195.


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.


Citation
Goldblatt, P., Manning, J.C. & von Staden, L. 2015. Ixia stolonifera G.J.Lewis. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14

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