One out of three sites are known to still exists on a village commonage, this site has been spared from plantations because it is also a breeding site for endangered Blue Swallows. By the time this species was described in 1976, grasslands on the Kaapse Hoop escarpment were already extensively transformed, and it is therefore rather difficult to determine the exact extent of the former range, and also whether or not this species occurred in open grasslands or whether it has always been restricted to specific sites sites of shallow soils among large boulders. Considering that this species is likely habitat specific, a direct linear relationship between extent of habitat loss and population decline probably cannot be assumed, but based on likely declines of two out of three known sites that are now in areas under plantations, it is estimated that there has been at least a 50% decline within the past 3 generations of this long-lived, resprouting shrub.

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