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Scientific Name | Aspalathus rectistyla R.Dahlgren |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | FABACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Critically Endangered B2ab(iii) |
Assessment Date | 2009/07/17 |
Assessor(s) | D. Raimondo |
Justification | Wheat cultivation has caused a >90% loss of habitat and a only few severely fragmented subpopulations are likely to remain on small fragments, with an estimated AOO <2 km². Declining due to livestock grazing and the negative effects of fragmentation, including pesticide drift, loss of pollinators and poor reproduction. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Piketberg to Porterville. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Swartland Shale Renosterveld |
Description | Renosterveld, shale soils. |
Threats |
| Agricultural transformation was a severe past threat - over 90% of habitat was transformed in the past 70 years.
There is a deleterious impact of fragmentation, including pesticide drift, lack of pollination, and a lack of gene flow (current severe threat).
Grazing by livestock on remnant patches of renosterveld - severe past, present and future threat. |
Population |
Population trend | Decreasing |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Aspalathus rectistyla R.Dahlgren | CR B2ab(iii) | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Aspalathus rectistyla R.Dahlgren | Insufficiently Known | Hilton-Taylor (1996) | | Aspalathus rectistyla R.Dahlgren | Uncertain | Hall et al. (1980) | |
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.
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.
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 |
| Raimondo, D. 2009. Aspalathus rectistyla R.Dahlgren. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/07/25 |
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