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Scientific Name | Dracosciadium saniculifolium Hilliard & B.L.Burtt |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | APIACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Critically Rare |
Assessment Date | 2018/06/05 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | Dracosciadium saniculifolium is a highly localized (EOO 1 km²) habitat specialist, but not threatened. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | KwaZulu-Natal |
Range | This species is endemic to the Northern KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg, where it occurs at Sentinel Peak and surrounds. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | uKhahlamba Basalt Grassland |
Description | It occurs in seeps at the base of steep, east-facing, basalt slopes in montane grassland, 2200-3000 m. |
Threats |
| There are no severe threats to this species. |
Population |
This extremely localized species is known from a single, small subpopulation, scattered along the summit ridge between the Sentinel Peak and Basuto Gate. The population is not suspected to be declining.
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Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Dracosciadium saniculifolium Hilliard & B.L.Burtt | Rare | Raimondo et al. (2009) | | Dracosciadium saniculifolium Hilliard & B.L.Burtt | Lower Risk - Near Threatened | Scott-Shaw (1999) | | Dracosciadium saniculifolium Hilliard & B.L.Burtt | Rare | Hilton-Taylor (1996) | |
Bibliography |
Hilliard, O.M. and Burtt, B.L. 1986. Notes on some plants of Southern Africa chiefly from Natal: XII. Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 43(2):189-228.
Hilton-Taylor, C. 1996. Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Pooley, E. 2003. Mountain flowers: a field guide to the flora of the Drakensberg and Lesotho. Natal Flora Publications Trust, Durban.
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.
Scott-Shaw, C.R. 1999. Rare and threatened plants of KwaZulu-Natal and neighbouring regions. KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service, Pietermaritzburg.
Van Wyk, B.E., Tilney, P.M. and Magee, A.R. 2013. African Apiaceae: A synopsis of the Apiaceae/Umbelliferae of sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. Briza Academic Books, Pretoria.
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Citation |
| von Staden, L. 2018. Dracosciadium saniculifolium Hilliard & B.L.Burtt. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2020.1. Accessed on 2023/12/03 |
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