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Scientific Name | Askidiosperma delicatulum H.P.Linder |
Higher Classification | Monocotyledons |
Family | RESTIONACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Critically Rare |
Assessment Date | 2008/07/23 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden, N.A. Helme & H.P. Linder |
Justification | This species is known from only one site in a remote mountainous area where it is not threatened. It is therefore listed under the IUCN 3.1. criteria as Least Concern but is nationally recognised as Critically Rare. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | This species occurs in Swartruggens between Ceres and the Tanqua Karoo. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Swartruggens Quartzite Fynbos |
Description | Plants grow in arid quartzite fynbos, in deep sand at valley bottoms and in seeps, 1300-1600 m. |
Population |
Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Askidiosperma delicatulum H.P.Linder | Critically Rare | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
Linder, H.P. 2001. Two new species of Askidiosperma (Restionaceae) from South Africa. Nordic Journal of Botany 21(2):195-200.
Linder, H.P. 2011. The African Restionaceae: an Interactive Key identification and description system. Version 6. http://www.systbot.uzh.ch/Bestimmungsschluessel/Restionaceae_en.html. Downloaded.
Linder, H.P. and Hardy, C.R. 2010. A generic reclassification of the Restioneae (Restionaceae), southern Africa. Bothalia 40(1):1-35.
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 |
| von Staden, L., Helme, N.A. & Linder, H.P. 2008. Askidiosperma delicatulum H.P.Linder. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/05/09 |
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