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Scientific Name | Oxalis inconspicua T.M.Salter |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | OXALIDACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Least Concern |
Assessment Date | 2015/05/02 |
Assessor(s) | L.L. Dreyer, K.C. Oberlander, L. von Staden & P.C.V. Van Wyk |
Justification | A widespread, but rarely recorded species that is likely overlooked, rather than rare of threatened. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Northern Cape |
Range | Richtersveld to Kamieskroon. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Succulent Karoo |
Description | Gravely hill slopes. |
Population |
This species has been rarely recorded, but is quite likely overlooked. It is common and widespread across the central mountains of the Richtersveld (P.C.V. van Wyk pers. obs.). Elsewhere it occurs in scattered, small, localized subpopulations (L.L. Dreyer and K.C. Oberlander pers. obs.).
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Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Oxalis inconspicua T.M.Salter | Least Concern | 2015.1 | | Oxalis inconspicua T.M.Salter | Rare | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
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.
Salter, T.M. 1944. The genus Oxalis in South Africa: a taxonomic revision. Journal of South African Botany Supplement 1:1-355.
Snijman, D.A. 2013. Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
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Citation |
| Dreyer, L.L., Oberlander, K.C., von Staden, L. & Van Wyk, P.C.V. 2015. Oxalis inconspicua T.M.Salter. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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