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Scientific Name | Berkheya angusta Schltr. |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | ASTERACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Vulnerable D2 |
Assessment Date | 2012/11/21 |
Assessor(s) | D. Raimondo, R.C. Turner & L. von Staden |
Justification | Plants at three of five known locations are potentially threatened by habitat loss to expanding vineyards. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Breede River Valley east of Worcester and mountains between Gansbaai and Bredasdorp. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | South Langeberg Sandstone Fynbos, Overberg Sandstone Fynbos, Montagu Shale Fynbos, Breede Shale Fynbos, Robertson Granite Fynbos, Elim Ferricrete Fynbos |
Description | Lower slopes, on clays or sandstone. |
Threats |
| Potentially threatened by habitat loss to expanding vineyards in the Breede River Valley. |
Population |
A poorly known and rarely collected species with an unusually disjunct distribution. The type material was collected from the Bredasdorp Mountains southwest of Napier, but most subsequent records are from the Breede River Valley. Recently, the species was also found in the coastal mountains near Gansbaai.
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Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Berkheya angusta Schltr. | VU D2 | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Berkheya angusta Schltr. | Insufficiently Known | Hilton-Taylor (1996) | | Berkheya angusta Schltr. | Uncertain | 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.
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.
Roessler, H. 1959. Revision der Arctotideae-Gorteriinae (Compositae). Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung München 3:71-500.
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Citation |
| Raimondo, D., Turner, R.C. & von Staden, L. 2012. Berkheya angusta Schltr. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/05/09 |
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