Taxonomy
Scientific Name
Euryops polytrichoides (Harv.) B.Nord.
Higher Classification
Dicotyledons
Family
ASTERACEAE
Synonyms
Gamolepis polytrichoides Harv.
National Status
Status and Criteria
Data Deficient - Insufficient Information
Assessment Date
2007/04/23
Assessor(s)
P.P.J. Herman, A.P. Dold & J.E. Victor
Justification
Known only from the type specimen collected by MacOwan in the 1800s near Grahamstown. It has not been relocated despite targeted searches.
Distribution
Endemism
South African endemic
Provincial distribution
Eastern Cape
Range
Grahamstown.
Habitat and Ecology
Major system
Terrestrial
Description
Unknown.
Threats
Unknown.
Population
Population trend
Unknown
Assessment History
Taxon assessed
Status and Criteria
Citation/Red List version
Euryops polytrichoides (Harv.) B.Nord.Data Deficient Raimondo et al. (2009)
Euryops polytrichoides (Harv.) B.Nord.Lower Risk - Least Concern Victor (2002)
Euryops polytrichoides (Harv.) B.Nord.Indeterminate Hilton-Taylor (1996)
Euryops polytrichoides (Harv.) B.Nord.Indeterminate Hall et al. (1980)
Bibliography

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.


Nordenstam, B. 1968. The genus Euryops. Part I. Taxonomy. Opera Botanica 20:7-409.


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.


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
Herman, P.P.J., Dold, A.P. & Victor, J.E. 2007. Euryops polytrichoides (Harv.) B.Nord. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14

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