Taxonomy
Scientific Name
Strumaria leipoldtii (L.Bolus) Snijman
Higher Classification
Monocotyledons
Family
AMARYLLIDACEAE
Synonyms
Gemmaria leipoldtii (L.Bolus) D.& U.Müll.-Doblies, Hessea leipoldtii L.Bolus, Periphanes leipoldtii (L.Bolus) F.M.Leight.
National Status
Status and Criteria
Critically Endangered B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii); C2a(ii)
Assessment Date
2007/08/10
Assessor(s)
D.A. Snijman & D. Raimondo
Justification
Known from one subpopulation with ± 200 mature individuals, there is ongoing loss and degradation of habitat due to quarrying.
Distribution
Endemism
South African endemic
Provincial distribution
Western Cape
Range
Lambert's Bay.
Habitat and Ecology
Major system
Terrestrial
Major habitats
Lambert's Bay Strandveld
Description
South-facing sandstone ledges along banks of seasonal rivers.
Threats
The only known existing locality for this species is on the edge of an urban area where it continues to be neglected and degraded, and is threatened by an expanding quarry. Plants at the type locality in the Olifants River Valley cannot be relocated and is presumed locally extinct due to habitat loss to crop cultivation.
Population
Population trend
Decreasing
Conservation
Not currently conserved in any formally protected area.
Assessment History
Taxon assessed
Status and Criteria
Citation/Red List version
Strumaria leipoldtii (L.Bolus) SnijmanCR B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii); C2a(ii)Raimondo et al. (2009)
Strumaria leipoldtii (L.Bolus) SnijmanVU D2Victor (2002)
Strumaria leipoldtii (L.Bolus) SnijmanEndangered Hilton-Taylor (1996)
Hessea leipoldtii L.BolusRare Hall et al. (1980)
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.


Hall, A.V., De Winter, M., De Winter, B. and Van Oosterhout, S.A.M. 1980. Threatened plants of southern Africa. South African National Scienctific Programmes Report 45. CSIR, Pretoria.


Hilton-Taylor, C. 1996. Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.


Müller-Doblies, D. and Müller-Doblies, U. 1985. De Liliifloris notulae 2: De taxonomia subtribus Strumariinae (Amaryllidaceae). Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik 107:17-47.


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.


Snijman, D.A. 1992. Notes on the Strumariinae (Amaryllidaceae : Amaryllideae): six new taxa in Strumaria and Hessea from the central and northwestern Cape, South Africa, and southern Namibia. Bothalia 22(1):1-11.


Snijman, D.A. 1992. Systematic studies in the tribe Amaryllidae (Amaryllidaceae). Unpublished Ph.D., University of Cape Town.


Snijman, D.A. 1994. Systematics of Hessea, Strumaria and Carpolyza (Amaryllideae: Amaryllidaceae). Contributions from the Bolus Herbarium 16:1-162.


Victor, J.E. 2002. South Africa. In: J.S. Golding (ed), Southern African plant Red Data Lists. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report 14 (pp. 93-120), SABONET, Pretoria.


Citation
Snijman, D.A. & Raimondo, D. 2007. Strumaria leipoldtii (L.Bolus) Snijman. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14

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