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Scientific Name | Muraltia stokoei Levyns |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | POLYGALACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Data Deficient - Insufficient Information |
Assessment Date | 2019/03/28 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | A rare and very poorly known species, last recorded in 1969. It is possibly threatened by habitat loss and degradation, particularly due to competition from alien invasive plants, but field surveys are needed to confirm this. Based on currently available data, its risk of extinction cannot be assessed. It is listed as Data Deficient. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | This species is known to occur from Viljoen's Pass to Kleinmond. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Kogelberg Sandstone Fynbos |
Description | Plants grow on rocky slopes in fynbos. |
Threats |
| This species has lost habitat to timber plantations in the vicinity of Viljoen's Pass, Nuweberg and Groenlandberg in the past. Timber plantations are no longer expanding, but surrounding areas of fynbos vegetation is degraded by spreading alien invasive plants, particularly escaped pine seedlings. |
Population |
A rare and very poorly known species, last recorded in 1969. The population trend and number of remaining subpopulations are not known, and field surveys are needed to relocate this species in the wild. It may be locally extinct around Viljoen's Pass, but is likely to still occur in the mountains above Kleinmond.
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Population trend | Unknown |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Muraltia stokoei Levyns | DDD | 2020.1 | | Muraltia stokoei Levyns | Rare | Raimondo 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.
Levyns, M.R. 1954. The genus Muraltia. Journal of South African Botany Supplement 2:1-247.
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.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. 2019. Muraltia stokoei Levyns. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/13 |
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