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Scientific Name | Geranium angustipetalum Hilliard & B.L.Burtt |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | GERANIACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Critically Rare |
Assessment Date | 2006/11/21 |
Assessor(s) | C.R. Scott-Shaw & J.E. Victor |
Justification | Known from one site in southern KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg. Not threatened. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | KwaZulu-Natal |
Range | Bushman's Nek. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | uKhahlamba Basalt Grassland |
Description | Subalpine grassland, scrub communities in damp ground at the foot of a moist, south-facing cave on sandstone cliffs. |
Population |
Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Geranium angustipetalum Hilliard & B.L.Burtt | Critically Rare | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Geranium angustipetalum Hilliard & B.L.Burtt | Data Deficient | Scott-Shaw (1999) | | Geranium angustipetalum Hilliard & B.L.Burtt | Rare | Hilton-Taylor (1996) | |
Bibliography |
Hilliard, O.M. and Burtt, B.L. 1985. A revision of Geranium in Africa south of the Limpopo. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 42(2):171-225.
Hilton-Taylor, C. 1996. Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
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.
Scott-Shaw, C.R. 1999. Rare and threatened plants of KwaZulu-Natal and neighbouring regions. KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service, Pietermaritzburg.
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Citation |
| Scott-Shaw, C.R. & Victor, J.E. 2006. Geranium angustipetalum Hilliard & B.L.Burtt. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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