Taxonomy
Scientific Name
Psoralea implexa C.H.Stirt.
Higher Classification
Dicotyledons
Family
FABACEAE
National Status
Status and Criteria
Endangered D
Assessment Date
2008/05/07
Assessor(s)
N.A. Helme
Justification
Fewer than 100 plants occur at a single known location, where they are potentially threatened by alien hakea invasion.
Distribution
Endemism
South African endemic
Provincial distribution
Western Cape
Range
Du Toit's Kloof Mountains.
Habitat and Ecology
Major system
Terrestrial
Major habitats
Hawequas Sandstone Fynbos
Description
Upper, steep, open, rocky slopes of kloofs with western and eastern aspects in fynbos.
Threats
Potentially threatened by competition from alien invasive plants.
Population
Population trend
Stable
Assessment History
Taxon assessed
Status and Criteria
Citation/Red List version
Psoralea implexa C.H.Stirt.EN DRaimondo et al. (2009)
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.


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.


Citation
Helme, N.A. 2008. Psoralea implexa C.H.Stirt. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/13

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