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Scientific Name | Erica feminarum E.G.H.Oliv. |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | ERICACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Critically Endangered D |
Assessment Date | 2012/09/04 |
Assessor(s) | R.C. Turner, E.G.H. Oliver & L. von Staden |
Justification | One subpopulation of approximately 30 plants is potentially threatened by too frequent fire and competition from alien invasive plants. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Stettynsberg. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Hawequas Sandstone Fynbos |
Description | Marshy seeps and moist gullies at high altitudes. |
Threats |
| Potentially threatened by too frequent fire - the area has burnt twice within 10 years. The slopes of the Stettynsberg are also partially infested by alien invasive hakeas and pines, which could threaten this species if left unmanaged. |
Population |
Only one subpopulation of about 30 plants is known.
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Population trend | Stable |
Conservation |
| The population occurs on private land outside the boundaries of the Limietberg Nature Reserve and is not currently protected. |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Erica feminarum E.G.H.Oliv. | CR D | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
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.
Oliver, E.G.H. and Oliver, I.M. 1999. Notes on African plants: Two new species of Erica from Western Cape, South Africa. Bothalia 29(1):95-98.
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 |
| Turner, R.C., Oliver, E.G.H. & von Staden, L. 2012. Erica feminarum E.G.H.Oliv. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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