Four subpopulations remain currently, and there have been two recorded subpopulation extinctions. There is one viable population on the shales on the south side of Shaw's Mountain. Three distinct patches occur over a 9 km range and in total numbered between 400 and 500 plants in 1998, the population has not been monitored for the past 22 years however it has come under protection recently, and has been recently burnt. Three other small subpopulations exist one at Marema Private Nature Reserve south of the town of Bot River where between 50 and 100 plants occur and two other small subpopulations of fewer than 20 plants exist one in the Hemel and Aarde Valley and the second on the north slopes of Shaw's Pass. Two subpopulations have gone extinct since 1975 the first at Bot River Bridge where a population of 20 to 40 plants in 1993 has gone extinct due to invasion by acacias and pines a second, a subpopulation at Diepgat was last recorded in 1963 but was likely to have been lost only post 1975 due to the development of vineyards. There is ongoing habitat degradation at all remaining subpopulations from invasive alien plant species the population is suspected to be declining.

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