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Scientific Name | Suregada africana (Sond.) Kuntze |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | EUPHORBIACEAE |
Synonyms | Ceratophorus africanus Sond., Gelonium africanum (Sond.) Müll.Arg. |
Common Names | Canary-berry (e), Common Canary-berry (e), Gewone Kanariebessie (a), Isithubi (z), Isithubi (x), Ithambolempisi (z), Umhlebezi-omhlope (z), Ummemezi (z) |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Least Concern |
Assessment Date | 2018/11/09 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | A widespread species that is not in danger of extinction. It is therefore assessed as Least Concern. |
Distribution |
Endemism | Not endemic to South Africa |
Provincial distribution | Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga |
Range | This species is widespread across eastern South Africa, from East London to Louis Trichardt. It also occurs in Mozambique and Swaziland. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Northern Coastal Forest, Escarpment Mesic Thicket, Fish Mesic Thicket, Kasouga Dune Thicket, Umtiza Forest Thicket, Hamburg Dune Thicket, Maputaland Coastal Belt, Maputaland Wooded Grassland, KwaZulu-Natal Coastal Belt Grassland, Transkei Coastal Belt, Lowveld Riverine Forest, Northern Afrotemperate Forest, Southern Mistbelt Forest, Northern Mistbelt Forest, Albany Valley Thicket, Zululand Lowveld, Eastern Valley Bushveld, Thukela Valley Bushveld, Tzaneen Sour Bushveld, Gabbro Grassy Bushveld, Tshokwane-Hlane Basalt Lowveld, Scarp Forest, Granite Lowveld, Southern Coastal Forest, Makatini Clay Thicket, Western Maputaland Clay Bushveld, Soutpansberg Mountain Bushveld, Ironwood Dry Forest, Sand Forest, Bhisho Thornveld, Delagoa Lowveld |
Description | Plants grow in subcanopy and margins of coastal evergreen forest, and in riverine forest and mixed deciduous woodlands. |
Population |
Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Suregada africana (Sond.) Kuntze | Least Concern | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
Bibliography |
Boon, R. 2010. Pooley's Trees of eastern South Africa. Flora and Fauna Publications Trust, Durban.
Coates Palgrave, M. 2002. Keith Coates Palgrave Trees of southern Africa. 3rd Edition. Struik, Cape Town.
Radcliffe-Smith, A. 1996. Euphorbiaceae. In: G.V. Pope (ed). Flora Zambesiaca 9 (Part 4):1-337. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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.
Schmidt, E., Lotter, M. and McCleland, W. 2002. Trees and shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park. Jacana, Johannesburg.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. 2018. Suregada africana (Sond.) Kuntze. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2025/04/14 |
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