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Scientific Name | Ornithogalum capillifolium Fourc. |
Higher Classification | Monocotyledons |
Family | HYACINTHACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Data Deficient - Insufficient Information |
Assessment Date | 2020/11/24 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | Ornithogalum capillifolium is a widespread but very poorly known and taxonomically problematic species. No other collections are known other than the three specimens cited in the original 1934 description of the species. It is possibly a rare habitat specialist and if so, likely to be threatened by alien invasive plants, but not enough is known at present to determine its status. It is listed as Data Deficient. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Eastern Cape, Western Cape |
Range | This species is endemic to South Africa, and is found in Tsitsikamma and Kouga Mountains. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Kouga Grassy Sandstone Fynbos, Kouga Sandstone Fynbos, Tsitsikamma Sandstone Fynbos |
Description | Its habitat is unknown, but it possibly occurs on streambanks. |
Threats |
| Ornithogalum capillifolium is possibly threatened by habitat loss to forestry plantations and competition from alien invasive plants. |
Population |
There is no information available on the population of this species.
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Population trend | Unknown |
Notes |
| Described in 1934 (Fourcade 1934), but overlooked by Leighton (1945) and treated as a synonym of the widespread Ornithogalum juncifolium by Obermeyer (1978). The Müller-Doblies (Müller-Doblies and Müller-Doblies 1996) reinstated the name without having made any further collections or identifying any other specimens as belonging to this species other than those cited by Fourcade (1934). The name is however upheld in the most recent classification of the genus (Manning et al. 2009). |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Ornithogalum capillifolium Fourc. | Data Deficient | 2012.1 | |
Bibliography |
Fourcade, H.G. 1934. Contributions to the flora of the Knysna and neighbouring divisions. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 21:75-102.
Leighton, F.M. 1945. A revision of the South African species of Ornithogalum L. Part III. Journal of South African Botany 11:135-185.
Manning, J.C., Forest, F., Devey, D.S., Fay, M.F. and Goldblatt, P. 2009. A molecular phylogeny and revised classification of Ornithogaloideae (Hyacinthaceae) based on an analysis of four plastid DNA regions. Taxon 58(1):77-107.
Müller-Doblies, U. and Müller-Doblies, D. 1996. Revisionula incompleta Ornithogalorum Austro-Africanorum (Hyacinthaceae). Feddes Repertorium 107(5-6):361-548.
Obermeyer, A.A. 1978. Ornithogalum: a revision of the southern African species. Bothalia 12(3):323-376.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. 2020. Ornithogalum capillifolium Fourc. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/05/15 |
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