Taxonomy
Scientific Name
Euryops decipiens Schltr.
Higher Classification
Dicotyledons
Family
ASTERACEAE
National Status
Status and Criteria
Critically Endangered B1ab(iii,v)+2ab(iii,v)
Assessment Date
2012/11/15
Assessor(s)
N.A. Helme & L. von Staden
Justification
EOO 3 km², plants at one known location are declining due to competition from alien invasive plants.
Distribution
Endemism
South African endemic
Provincial distribution
Western Cape
Range
Bain's Kloof Mountains.
Habitat and Ecology
Major system
Terrestrial
Major habitats
Hawequas Sandstone Fynbos
Description
Steep, moist, sandstone slopes, 420-1300 m.
Threats
Threatened by severe, unmanaged infestations of alien invasive hakeas.
Population

Locally abundant within a single kloof, where there are at least 5000 plants.


Population trend
Decreasing
Assessment History
Taxon assessed
Status and Criteria
Citation/Red List version
Euryops decipiens Schltr.VU D22012.1
Euryops decipiens Schltr.VU D2Raimondo et al. (2009)
Euryops decipiens Schltr.VU D2Victor (2002)
Euryops decipiens Schltr.Rare Hilton-Taylor (1996)
Euryops decipiens Schltr.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.


Citation
Helme, N.A. & von Staden, L. 2012. Euryops decipiens Schltr. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14

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