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Scientific Name | Lepidium pinnatum Thunb. |
Higher Classification | Dicotyledons |
Family | BRASSICACEAE |
National Status |
Status and Criteria | Vulnerable D2 |
Assessment Date | 2018/05/28 |
Assessor(s) | L. von Staden |
Justification | A rare habitat specialist, known from four to five locations, and potentially threatened by competition from alien invasive plants. |
Distribution |
Endemism | South African endemic |
Provincial distribution | Western Cape |
Range | Northern Cape Peninsula to Wemmershoek and western Riviersonderend Mountains. |
Habitat and Ecology |
Major system | Terrestrial |
Major habitats | Peninsula Sandstone Fynbos, South Sonderend Sandstone Fynbos, Hawequas Sandstone Fynbos, Boland Granite Fynbos |
Description | Shaded ledges or sheltered cracks in rocks. |
Threats |
| Potentially threatened by competition from alien invasive plants in the Wemmershoek Mountains and the northern slopes of the Riviersonderend Mountains. |
Population |
A rare and localized habitat specialist, but possibly also overlooked in inaccessible montane areas.
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Population trend | Stable |
Assessment History |
Taxon assessed |
Status and Criteria |
Citation/Red List version | | Lepidium pinnatum Thunb. | Least Concern | Raimondo et al. (2009) | |
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.
Manning, J.C. and Goldblatt, P. 2012. Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape Flora. Strelitzia 29. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
Marais, W. 1970. Cruciferae. In: L.E. Codd, B. De Winter, D.J.B. Killick and H.B. Rycroft (eds). Flora of southern Africa 13:1-118. Botanical Research Institute, Pretoria.
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 |
| von Staden, L. 2018. Lepidium pinnatum Thunb. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2020.1. Accessed on 2023/11/28 |
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