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Scientific Name | Euryops virgatus B.Nord. |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | ASTERACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Critically Endangered A2bc |
Assessment Date | 2011/06/09 |
Assessor(s) | D. Raimondo & E. Marinus |
Justification | A population reduction of at least 80% is estimated based on 83% habitat loss to wheat cultivation over the past 70 years, which is within three generations of this slow-growing, long-lived reseeder (generation length at least 50 years). Two small subpopulations remain on renosterveld remnants, one with only two individuals, the other at the Hantam Botanic Garden numbering 600 individuals. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Northern Cape |
Range | Bokkeveld Escarpment, Nieuwoudtville. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Nieuwoudtville Shale Renosterveld |
Description | Rocky, sandy flats on Dwyka tillite clay. |
Threats |
| At least 80% of this species habitat has been lost to wheat cultivation in the past 50 years. Remaining fragments are heavily grazed. Although this long-lived resprouter persists even under heavy grazing pressure, monitoring of the largest remaining subpopulation at the Hantam Botanical Garden revealed that plants do not flower when heavily grazed, and this species may continue to decline in the long term due to lack of recruitment. |
Population |
Two remaining subpopulations consist of 2 and 600 plants respectively. Population estimates are based on surveys in 2009 and 2010. Monitoring revealed that recruitment is very poor.
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Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Euryops virgatus B.Nord. | CR A2cb; D | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Euryops virgatus B.Nord. | VU D2 | Victor (2002) | | Euryops virgatus B.Nord. | Rare | Hilton-Taylor (1996) | | Euryops virgatus B.Nord. | Rare | 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.
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Citation |
| Raimondo, D. & Marinus, E. 2011. Euryops virgatus B.Nord. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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