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Scientific Name | Erica barbigera Salisb. |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | ERICACEAE |
Synonyms | Blaeria barbigera (Salisb.) G.Don |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Data Deficient - Taxonomically Problematic |
Assessment Date | 2011/10/05 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | An insufficiently known species. The type specimen is lost and the original description too vague to match to any known species. Although all species of Blaeria have been transferred to Erica, this species remains unresolved. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | This species is found in the Hottentots Holland. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Fynbos |
Description | Its habitat is currently unknown. |
Threats |
| The threats to this species are unknown. |
Population |
Population trend | Stable |
Notes |
| Described in 1802 (Salisbury 1802), based on a specimen collected by Francis Masson (Masson s.n.), from the 'Hottentots Holland', the mountains and lowlands to the east of False Bay in the Western Cape. In transferring all species of Blaeria to Erica, Oliver (1993) remarked that Masson's type cannot be located, and furthermore, Salisbury's description is so vague that it could apply to a number of Erica species, and the necessary transfer to Erica was not made. This name remains unresolved. |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Blaeria barbigera (Salisb.) G.Don | Least Concern | 2011.1 | | Blaeria barbigera (Salisb.) G.Don | Least Concern | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
Oliver, D. 1908. Ranunculaceae. Flora of Tropical Africa:4-13.
Oliver, E.G.H. 1993. Studies in the Ericoideae (Ericaceae). XII. The placing of the genus Blaeria into synonymy under Erica, nomenclatural and taxonomic changes for the southern Africa region. Bothalia 23(1):1-7.
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.
Salisbury, R.A. 1802. Species of Erica. Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London 6:316-388.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. 2011. Erica barbigera Salisb. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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