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Scientific Name | Disa brevipetala H.P.Linder |
Higher Classification | Monocotyledons |
Family | ORCHIDACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Data Deficient - Taxonomically Problematic |
Assessment Date | 2006/06/28 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | Previously listed as extinct, this species is only recorded from two collections made in 1942 in the Kleinmond area, five days apart, and possibly from the same population. No description or information on the habitat was provided. In spite of the area being comparatively well collected, the species was not found again. Linder (1981), as well as Linder and Kurzweil (1999) are not sure if it is an aberrant form of another species or a unique species, and according to Liltved and Johnson (unpubl.) the area where the taxon was found (Harold Porter Botanical Garden/Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve) is undisturbed and well-protected and therefore plants are unlikely to have gone extinct. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Kleinmond. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Description | Unknown. |
Population |
Population trend | Unknown |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Disa brevipetala H.P.Linder | Data Deficient (Taxonomically Problematic) | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Disa brevipetala H.P.Linder | Extinct | Victor (2002) | | Disa brevipetala H.P.Linder | Extinct | Hilton-Taylor (1996) | |
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.
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.
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.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. 2006. Disa brevipetala H.P.Linder. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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