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Scientific Name | Cineraria atriplicifolia DC. |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | ASTERACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Vulnerable B1ab(iii) |
Assessment Date | 2008/03/26 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | EOO 2000-7400 km², but uncertain as species may extend as far north as Richards Bay. Known from seven locations. It has experienced extensive habitat loss due to urban expansion, forestry plantations and crop cultivation (mainly sugarcane). There is ongoing habitat loss due to urban expansion, subsistence agriculture, overgrazing, a deleterious fire regime and alien plant invasion. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | KwaZulu-Natal |
Range | Between Durban, Pietermaritzburg and Richmond. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Eastern Valley Bushveld, KwaZulu-Natal Sandstone Sourveld, KwaZulu-Natal Hinterland Thornveld, Dry Coast Hinterland Grassland |
Description | Grassland, open dry thornveld, or sometimes at the edges of thicket or forest or below steep cliffs in river valleys, 30-800 m. |
Threats |
| C. atriplicifolia has a restricted distribution in one of the most extensively transformed parts of KwaZulu-Natal. All known locations are threatened by urban expansion, agriculture, overgrazing, too frequent burning and alien invasive encroachment. This species is also known from one uncertain outlying locality further north along the KwaZulu-Natal coast, but this area is also extensively transformed by forestry plantations and sugarcane cultivation. The coastal area between these two disjunct areas are also c 80% transformed, mainly to sugarcane. If more fieldwork indicates that it is indeed more widespread than the immediate area of Durban, Pietermaritzburg and Richmond, then it may be more common, but not likely any less threatened. |
Population |
Population trend | Decreasing |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Cineraria atriplicifolia DC. | VU B1ab(iii) | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Cineraria atriplicifolia DC. | Lower Risk - Least Concern | Scott-Shaw (1999) | |
Bibliography |
Cron, G.V., Balkwill, K. and Knox, E.B. 2006. A revision of the genus Cineraria (Asteraceae, Senecioneae). Kew Bulletin 61:449-535.
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.
Scott-Shaw, C.R. 1999. Rare and threatened plants of KwaZulu-Natal and neighbouring regions. KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service, Pietermaritzburg.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. 2008. Cineraria atriplicifolia DC. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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