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Scientific Name | Erica tragomontana R.C.Turner |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | ERICACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Vulnerable D2 |
Assessment Date | 2007/02/11 |
Assessor(s) | R.C. Turner |
Justification | Four known locations are potentially threatened by too frequent fire. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Central Koue Bokkeveld, Skurweberg and Bokberg Mountains. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Winterhoek Sandstone Fynbos |
Description | Rocky, sandy, quartzitic mountain slopes, often with shale alluvium, on southwest- to southeast-facing slopes, usually in non-perennial seepage areas. |
Threats |
| Potentially threatened by too frequent fire. There are also scattered alien invasive pines on the Bokberg and Sandberg. |
Population |
Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Erica tragomontana R.C.Turner | VU D2 | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
Oliver, E.G.H. 2000. Systematics of Ericeae (Ericaceae-Ericoideae): species with indehiscent and partially indehiscent fruits. Contributions from the Bolus Herbarium 19:1-483.
Oliver, E.G.H. and Oliver, I.M. 2000. Three new species of Erica (Ericaceae) from Western Cape, South Africa. Bothalia 30(2):147-153.
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.
Turner, R.C. and Oliver, E.G.H. 2004. A new species of indehiscent-fruited Erica from the Central Kouebokkeveld, Western Caps, South Africa. Bothalia 34(1):39-41.
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Citation |
| Turner, R.C. 2007. Erica tragomontana R.C.Turner. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/08/20 |
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