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Scientific Name | Kewa arenicola (Sond.) Christenh. |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | KEWACEAE |
Synonyms | Hypertelis arenicola Sond. |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Data Deficient - Insufficient Information |
Assessment Date | 2015/04/24 |
Assessor(s) | D.A. Kamundi & L. von Staden |
Justification | A rare and poorly known species, that is likely to be in danger of extinction, but based on currently available data, its risk of extinction cannot be assessed. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Eastern Cape, Western Cape |
Range | Cape Town to Port Elizabeth. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Eastern Upper Karoo, Upper Karoo Hardeveld, Karoo Escarpment Grassland, Overberg Dune Strandveld, Cape Flats Dune Strandveld, Roggeveld Shale Renosterveld, Swartland Granite Renosterveld, Peninsula Sandstone Fynbos, Cape Flats Sand Fynbos, Cape Seashore Vegetation, Albany Alluvial Vegetation |
Description | Damp brackish flats near the coast, around estuaries. |
Threats |
| It is threatened by ongoing habitat loss and degradation due to urban and industrial expansion on the Cape Flats and at Port Elizabeth. If it occurs elsewhere along the coast, it is possibly less threatened, but coastal development is also an ongoing threat around many estuaries. |
Population |
A rare and very poorly known species, recorded from three widely disjunct localities. It is possibly localized to estuaries, but the most recent record dates from 1957, and all records have imprecise locality descriptions. Historical localities on the Cape Flats are likely to be locally extinct due to habitat loss, but it possibly still survives at De Hoop and the Swartkops Estuary near Redhouse, Port Elizabeth. Other estuaries between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth needs to be surveyed for the presence of this species.
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Population trend | Unknown |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Kewa arenicola (Sond.) Christenh. | Data Deficient | 2015.1 | | Hypertelis arenicola Sond. | Least Concern | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
Adamson, R.S. 1958. The South African species of Aizoaceae. IV. Mollugo, Pharnaceum, Coelanthum and Hypertelis. Journal of South African Botany 24:11-69.
Christenhusz, M.J., Brockington, S.F., Christin, P.-A. and Sage, R.F. 2014. On the disintegration of Molluginaceae: a new genus and family (Kewa, Kewaceae) segregated from Hypertelis, and placement of Macarthuria in Macarthuriaceae. Phytotaxa 181(4):238-242.
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.
Manning, J.C. and Goldblatt, P. 2012. Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape Flora. Strelitzia 29. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
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 |
| Kamundi, D.A. & von Staden, L. 2015. Kewa arenicola (Sond.) Christenh. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/19 |
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