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Scientific Name | Pycreus oakfortensis C.B.Clarke |
Higher Classification | Monocotyledons |
Family | CYPERACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Least Concern |
Assessment Date | 2011/06/24 |
Assessor(s) | W. Foden & L. Potter |
Justification | Widespread and not suspected to be in danger of extinction. |
Distribution |
Endemism | Not endemic to South Africa |
Provincial distribution | Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga |
Range | Widespread across eastern South Africa including Swaziland. Occurs from the Soutpansberg southwards through Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal to southern Pondoland. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Grassland, Indian Ocean Coastal Belt |
Description | Seasonally waterlogged and other moist areas in grasslands. Often on stream banks and around pond edges. |
Notes |
| This species forms part of a species complex including P. cooperi, P. macranthus and P. betschuanus. The epithet oakfortensis is often misapplied to specimens of P. cooperi. The possibility of P. oakfortensis having had a hybrid origin must not be ignored (Gordon-Gray 1995). |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Pycreus oakfortensis C.B.Clarke | Least Concern | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
Gordon-Gray, K.D. 1995. Cyperaceae in Natal. Strelitzia 2:1-218. 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.
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Citation |
| Foden, W. & Potter, L. 2011. Pycreus oakfortensis C.B.Clarke. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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