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Scientific Name | Phylica burchellii Pillans |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | RHAMNACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Data Deficient - Insufficient Information |
Assessment Date | 2016/02/26 |
Assessor(s) | F. Daniels, N.A. Helme & D. van der Colff |
Justification | A rare and poorly known species, last collected in 1815. It is likely to be threatened, or possibly even extinct, but based on current knowledge, its risk of extinction cannot be assessed. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Riviersonderend Mountains near Genadendal. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Fynbos |
Description | Uncertain, possibly lower south-facing slopes. |
Threats |
| The specific habitat of this species is not known, and therefore threats are difficult to infer. If it occurred on the lower slopes, it is now possibly extinct, as the area was converted to timber plantations. On the upper slopes it is likely to be threatened by competition from spreading invasive pines, originating from escaped seedlings from the plantations on the lower slopes. Pine invasion is rapidly spreading across the Riviersonderend Mountains, and endangering many local endemic species. |
Population |
This species is only known from the type specimen, collected in 1815 at an unspecified locality in the Riviersonderend Mountains west of Genadendal. The genus Phylica is taxonomically problematic and collections are difficult to identify. This species is possibly overlooked and misidentified as other species. The size, extent of the population, as well as population trend is not known, but it is likely to be declining.
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Population trend | Unknown |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Phylica burchellii Pillans | Data Deficient | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Phylica burchellii Pillans | Insufficiently Known | Hilton-Taylor (1996) | | Phylica burchellii Pillans | Uncertain | Hall et al. (1980) | |
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.
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.
Pillans, N.S. 1942. The genus Phylica, Linn. Journal of South African Botany 8(1):1-164.
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 |
| Daniels, F., Helme, N.A. & van der Colff, D. 2016. Phylica burchellii Pillans. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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