Taxonomy
Scientific Name
Asclepias rara N.E.Br.
Higher Classification
Dicotyledons
Family
APOCYNACEAE
National Status
Status and Criteria
Data Deficient - Insufficient Information
Assessment Date
2004/12/10
Assessor(s)
J.E. Victor & A. Nicholas
Justification
Recorded only from the type collection, although parts of the valley where it occurs have been transformed for crop cultivation, other parts are still natural. The site description on the type specimen is too vague to determine whether or not this species is threatened.
Distribution
Endemism
South African endemic
Provincial distribution
Eastern Cape
Range
Albany, Coombs Valley east of Grahamstown.
Habitat and Ecology
Major system
Terrestrial
Major habitats
Albany Thicket, Fynbos
Description
Unknown.
Population
Population trend
Unknown
Assessment History
Taxon assessed
Status and Criteria
Citation/Red List version
Asclepias rara N.E.Br.Data Deficient Raimondo et al. (2009)
Bibliography

Nicholas, A. 1982. Taxonomic studies in Asclepias (Asclepiadeae) with particular reference to the narrow-leaved species in southern Africa. University of Natal.


Nicholas, A. 1999. A taxonomic reassessment of the subtribe Asclepiadinae (Asclepiaceae) in Southern Africa. Unpublished Ph.D., University of Durban-Westville, Durban.


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.


Victor, J.E. and Dold, A.P. 2003. Threatened plants of the Albany Centre of Floristic Endemism, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 99:437-446.


Citation
Victor, J.E. & Nicholas, A. 2004. Asclepias rara N.E.Br. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/18

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