Taxonomy
Scientific Name
Ficinia pygmaea Boeck.
Higher Classification
Monocotyledons
Family
CYPERACEAE
Synonyms
Chamaexyphium dregeanum Steud.
National Status
Status and Criteria
Data Deficient - Insufficient Information
Assessment Date
2022/05/09
Assessor(s)
M. Muasya, C.H. Stirton & C. Archer
Justification
This species is known from a single collection made in 1830 in the Western Cape, South Africa. It is inadequately known and may be threatened by agriculture and is therefore assessed as Data Deficient.
Distribution
Endemism
South African endemic
Provincial distribution
Western Cape
Range
This species is only known from the type specimen from Lange Vallei, Western Cape.
Habitat and Ecology
Major system
Terrestrial
Major habitats
Fynbos
Description
No information is available on the habitat of this species.
Threats
This species is inadequately known as there is limited distribution information available. It may well be threatened given that areas near the type locality have been converted into agricultural land.
Population

No population data are available.


Population trend
Unknown
Assessment History
Taxon assessed
Status and Criteria
Citation/Red List version
Ficinia pygmaea Boeck.NT B1ab(ii,iii,iv,v)Raimondo et al. (2009)
Ficinia pygmaea Boeck.Lower Risk - Least Concern Victor (2002)
Ficinia pygmaea Boeck.Not Threatened Hilton-Taylor (1996)
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.


Hilton-Taylor, C. 1996. Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.


Muasya, A.M., Stirton, C.H. and Archer, C. 2020. Ficinia pygmaea is not conspecific with F. limosa, and a description of a new species of Ficinia (Cyperaceae) from South Africa. South African Journal of Botany 128:128-131.


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.


Victor, J.E. 2002. South Africa. In: J.S. Golding (ed), Southern African plant Red Data Lists. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report 14 (pp. 93-120), SABONET, Pretoria.


Citation
Muasya, M., Stirton, C.H. & Archer, C. 2022. Ficinia pygmaea Boeck. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version . Accessed on 2024/12/07

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