Taxonomy
Scientific Name
Euryops gracilipes B.Nord.
Higher Classification
Dicotyledons
Family
ASTERACEAE
National Status
Status and Criteria
Vulnerable D2
Assessment Date
2018/05/14
Assessor(s)
L. von Staden
Justification
Euryops gracilipes has an extent of occurrence (EOO) of less than 10 km². Plants at a single known location are potentially threatened by habitat loss and degradation. It is therefore listed as Vulnerable under criterion D.
Distribution
Endemism
South African endemic
Provincial distribution
Eastern Cape
Range
This species is endemic to the Fish River Valley near Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
Habitat and Ecology
Major system
Terrestrial
Major habitats
Fish Arid Thicket, Fish Valley Thicket
Description
It occurs on flats with open scrub.
Threats
Euryops gracilipes is potentially threatened by habitat loss and degradation due to crop cultivation and overgrazing.
Population

This species is only known from the type collection, dating from 1962. It is inconspicuous and flowers outside of the main flowering season for plants of the area (March) and is therefore probably overlooked. Field surveys are needed to relocate it in the wild.


Population trend
Stable
Assessment History
Taxon assessed
Status and Criteria
Citation/Red List version
Euryops gracilipes B.Nord.VU D2Raimondo et al. (2009)
Euryops gracilipes B.Nord.VU D2Victor (2002)
Euryops gracilipes B.Nord.Insufficiently Known Hilton-Taylor (1996)
Euryops gracilipes B.Nord.Uncertain 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
von Staden, L. 2018. Euryops gracilipes B.Nord. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14

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