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Scientific Name | Aspalathus repens R.Dahlgren |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | FABACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Critically Endangered B2ab(iii,v) |
Assessment Date | 2011/06/10 |
Assessor(s) | D. Raimondo, N.A. Helme & D.I.W. Euston-Brown |
Justification | EOO 138 km², AOO <10 km², three severely fragmented subpopulations are declining due to alien plant invasion. One subpopulation is currently heavily overgrazed. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Bredasdorp. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Central Ruens Shale Renosterveld, De Hoop Limestone Fynbos, Agulhas Limestone Fynbos, Elim Ferricrete Fynbos, Agulhas Sand Fynbos |
Description | Lowland fynbos on transition soils between shale and limestone, 90 m. |
Threats |
| This species is likely to have lost the majority of its habitat to crop cultivation in the past, but agriculture is no longer significantly expanding in the area. A subpopulation on the outskirts of Bredasdorp is threatened by infrastructure development and habitat loss to quarrying. A small subpopulation found in 2008 is threatened by severe overgrazing due to overstocking of fynbos remnants with livestock. A third subpopulation at an air force base may have lost some habitat to infrastructure development in the past, but its habitat is currently protected. Spreading, unmanaged alien invasive wattles is a threat across this species' habitat. |
Population |
Population trend | Decreasing |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Aspalathus repens R.Dahlgren | CR B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii); C2a(ii) | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Aspalathus repens R.Dahlgren | Vulnerable | Hilton-Taylor (1996) | |
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.
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., Helme, N.A. & Euston-Brown, D.I.W. 2011. Aspalathus repens R.Dahlgren. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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