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Scientific Name | Aspalathus chrysantha R.Dahlgren |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | FABACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Vulnerable A2c; D2 |
Assessment Date | 2008/04/30 |
Assessor(s) | A.L. Schutte-Vlok, N.A. Helme & D. Raimondo |
Justification | A population reduction of at least 30% is estimated based on habitat loss to crop cultivation in the past 70 years (generation length of this long-lived resprouter is at least 30 years). Two remaining locations are potentially threatened by further agricultural expansion. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Piketberg. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Piketberg Sandstone Fynbos |
Description | Sandy and gravely flats above 450 m and on sandstone slopes. |
Threats |
| One of this locations (the top of Versveld Pass) was heavily transformed by fruit farming before the 1980s and has recently been further transformed due to buchu farming. The second location is on sandstone slopes and are that has lost ± 20 % of its habitat to crop cultivation. |
Population |
Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Aspalathus chrysantha R.Dahlgren | VU A2c; D2 | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
Dahlgren, R. 1988. Crotalarieae (Aspalathus). In: O.A. Leistner (ed). Flora of southern Africa 16 Fabaceae, Part 3 Papilionoideae, Fascicle 6:1-430. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
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.
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Citation |
| Schutte-Vlok, A.L., Helme, N.A. & Raimondo, D. 2008. Aspalathus chrysantha R.Dahlgren. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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