Taxonomy
Scientific Name
Cliffortia montana Weim.
Higher Classification
Dicotyledons
Family
ROSACEAE
National Status
Status and Criteria
Rare
Assessment Date
2007/03/12
Assessor(s)
C.M. Whitehouse, D. Raimondo & N.A. Helme
Justification
A habitat specialist known from two disjunct areas in the Western and Eastern Cape.
Distribution
Endemism
South African endemic
Provincial distribution
Eastern Cape, Western Cape
Range
Swartberg Mountains and Sneeuberg Mountains around Graaff-Reinet.
Habitat and Ecology
Major system
Terrestrial
Major habitats
Upper Karoo Hardeveld, Karoo Escarpment Grassland, Swartberg Altimontane Sandstone Fynbos, South Swartberg Sandstone Fynbos, North Swartberg Sandstone Fynbos
Description
Sandstone slopes, often in seepage areas.
Threats
No threats known, although inappropriate fire management could negatively affect this species.
Population

A very poorly known and rarely collected species with an unusually disjunct distribution. It is possibly overlooked and more common and widespread than collections indicate.


Population trend
Stable
Assessment History
Taxon assessed
Status and Criteria
Citation/Red List version
Cliffortia montana Weim.Rare Raimondo et al. (2009)
Cliffortia montana Weim.Lower Risk - Least Concern Victor (2002)
Cliffortia montana Weim.Insufficiently Known Hilton-Taylor (1996)
Cliffortia montana Weim.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.


Manning, J.C. and Goldblatt, P. 2012. Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape Flora. Strelitzia 29. South African National Biodiversity 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.


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.


Whitehouse, C.M. 2006. Cliffortia Interactive Key. Bolus Herbarium, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.


Citation
Whitehouse, C.M., Raimondo, D. & Helme, N.A. 2007. Cliffortia montana Weim. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14

Comment on this assessment Comment on this assessment
Distribution map


Search for images of Cliffortia montana on iNaturalist