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Scientific Name | Euryops ursinoides B.Nord. |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | ASTERACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Vulnerable D2 |
Assessment Date | 2007/04/23 |
Assessor(s) | D. Raimondo, W. Berrington & R.C. Turner |
Justification | Known from four locations, two are old locations from the Van Stadens Mountains at Longmore and Otterford forest stations, but these have not been relocated and may have been lost due to afforestation. A lack of fire at both these locations as well as at Van Stadens Nature Reserve pose a significant potential threat to this fire-dependent recruiter. Without fire, this species' habitat eventually becomes unsuitable afromontane forest. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Eastern Cape |
Range | Information redacted, contact SANBI |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Algoa Sandstone Fynbos, Kouga Sandstone Fynbos |
Description | Mesic fynbos on steep slopes, mostly on hillsides at low altitudes. |
Threats |
| Parts of the Van Stadens Mountains have been afforested with exotic pine plantations in the past. As locality descriptions are not very precise, it is difficult to know if sub-populations have been lost or not, but over 80% of habitat in these areas has been transformed over the past 60 years.
The species is apparently dependent on fire for recruitment, and quickly disappears in dense mature fynbos. Plants had not been seen in the Van Stadens Wildflower Reserve for over 50 years, but a few plants came up after a small area was brush cut in 2003. The reserve as well as small fragments of natural vegetation among plantations are seldom burnt due to the risk of damage to nearby properties. Within some areas that are never burnt, fynbos is turning into afromontane forest. |
Population |
Population trend | Stable |
Conservation |
| Protected in the Van Stadens Wild Flower Local Authority Nature Reserve, although management practices do not favour this species. |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Euryops ursinoides B.Nord. | VU D2 | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Euryops ursinoides B.Nord. | VU D2 | Victor (2002) | | Euryops ursinoides B.Nord. | Indeterminate | Hilton-Taylor (1996) | | Euryops ursinoides B.Nord. | Indeterminate | Hall et al. (1980) | |
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.
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.
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Citation |
| Raimondo, D., Berrington, W. & Turner, R.C. 2007. Euryops ursinoides B.Nord. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2024.1. Accessed on 2026/08/29 |
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