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Scientific Name | Sonchus jacottetianus Thell. |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | ASTERACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Least Concern |
Assessment Date | 2018/05/17 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | A widespread species that is not in danger of extinction. It is therefore assessed as Least Concern. |
Distribution |
Endemism | Not endemic to South Africa |
Provincial distribution | KwaZulu-Natal |
Range | This species occurs in the Ngeli Mountains and Karkloof range near Pietermaritzburg. It also occurs in Lesotho. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Midlands Mistbelt Grassland, Drakensberg Foothill Moist Grassland, uKhahlamba Basalt Grassland, Southern Drakensberg Highland Grassland |
Description | Plants grow in grasslands around rock outcrops or on small earth terracettes on forest margins. |
Threats |
| This species has lost habitat to timber plantations and urban expansion, and loss and degradation of habitat is likely to continue. Its resilience to disturbance is not known. |
Population |
This species is known from only a few, scattered records, but plants are small and easily overlooked (Hilliard 1977), and may therefore be more common than records suggest.
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Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Sonchus jacottetianus Thell. | Least Concern | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
Boulos, L. 1973. Revision systematique du genre Sonchus L. s.l.: 4. Sous-genre: 1. Sonchus. Botaniska Notiser 126(2):155-196.
Hilliard, O.M. 1977. Compositae in Natal. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg.
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.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. 2018. Sonchus jacottetianus Thell. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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