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Scientific Name | Codonorhiza azurea (Eckl. ex Baker) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning |
Higher Classification | Monocotyledons |
Family | IRIDACEAE |
Synonyms | Lapeirousia azurea (Eckl. ex Baker) Goldblatt, Lapeirousia corymbosa (L.) Ker Gawl. subsp. fastigiata (Lam.) Goldblatt (in part), Lapeirousia corymbosa Ker Gawl. var. azurea Eckl. ex Baker, Meristostigma azureum Eckl. ex Steud. (invalidly published) |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Endangered B1ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v) |
Assessment Date | 2012/11/27 |
Assessor(s) | N.A. Helme, P. Goldblatt, J.C. Manning & L. von Staden |
Justification | EOO 3056 km², 13 to 15 severely fragmented subpopulations continue to decline due to ongoing habitat loss and degradation as a result of urban and agricultural expansion, competition from alien invasive plants and fire exclusion from small habitat fragments. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Saron to the Cape Peninsula and Stellenbosch. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Swartland Shale Renosterveld, Breede Shale Renosterveld, Swartland Granite Renosterveld, Swartland Silcrete Renosterveld, Breede Shale Fynbos, Peninsula Granite Fynbos, Boland Granite Fynbos, Atlantis Sand Fynbos, Swartland Alluvium Fynbos, Breede Alluvium Fynbos |
Description | Granite soils, on clay flats and slopes. |
Threats |
| At least 75% of this species' habitat is already transformed, predominantly for crop cultivation. It is now locally extinct on the Cape Peninsula due to habitat loss to urban expansion. Around Malmesbury, it continues to be threatened by ongoing habitat loss to urban expansion. Elsewhere, subpopulations on small fragments are threatened by ongoing habitat degradation as a result of alien plant invasions and a lack of fire. |
Population |
A range restricted, but formerly very common species that has lost more than 75% of its habitat. It is now locally extinct on the Cape Peninsula, and except for the Paardeberg between Malmesbury and Paarl, where the species was found to occur all across this mountain after a recent fire, all subpopulations are confined to small, isolated fragments. It continues to decline due to ongoing habitat loss and fragmentation.
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Population trend | Decreasing |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Codonorhiza azurea (Eckl. ex Baker) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning | EN B1ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v) | 2017.1 | | Lapeirousia azurea (Eckl. ex Baker) Goldblatt | EN B1ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v) | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Lapeirousia azurea (Eckl. ex Baker) Goldblatt | Vulnerable | Hilton-Taylor (1996) | |
Bibliography |
Goldblatt, P. and Manning, J.C. 1992. Systematics of the Southern African Lapeirousia corymbosa complex (Iridaceae : Ixioideae), with L. neglecta sp. nov. South African Journal of Botany 58(5):326-336.
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. 2015. Systematics and biology of Lapeirousia, Codonorhiza, Psilosiphon and Schizorhiza in southern Africa. Strelitzia 35. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
Hilton-Taylor, C. 1996. Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical 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 |
| Helme, N.A., Goldblatt, P., Manning, J.C. & von Staden, L. 2012. Codonorhiza azurea (Eckl. ex Baker) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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