Moraea loubseri Goldblatt (1977:t. 1724)
Spinnekopflappie
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 2002 (Raimondo et al., 2013:10)
Rediscovered in September 2011
Distribution
Langebaan, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Goldblatt, P. (1977a). Moraea loubseri. The Flowering Plants of Africa 44: t. 1724.
Other references:
Duncan, G. (1981). Moraea loubseri Goldbl. - saved through cultivation. Veld & Flora 67(1): 18-19.
Duncan, G. D. (1997). Moraeas of the Western Cape. Veld & Flora 83(2):42-44.
Ebrahim, I., Von Witt, C. and Cohen, C. (2005). Peacocks, ploughs and porcupines. Veld & Flora 91(4): 185-187.
Germishuizen, G. and Meyer, N. L. (eds.). (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Goldblatt, P. (1976). The Genus Moraea in the Winter Rainfall Region of Southern Africa. Ann. Missouri bot. Gdn 63: 669, 778-779, fig. 34.
Goldblatt, P. (1977b). Moraea loubseri - an exciting new species doomed to extinction? Veld & Flora 63(3): 15-16.
Goldblatt, P. (1986). The Moraeas of Southern Africa: a systematic monograph of the genus in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Transkei, Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. Annals of Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens 14:1-224. National Botanic Gardens in association with the Missouri Botanical Garden, USA, Cape Town.
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.
Hall, A. V., De Winter, M., De Winter, B. and Van Oosterhout, S. A. M. (1980). Threatened plants of southern Africa. South African National Scienctific Programmes Report 45. CSIR, Pretoria.
Hilton-Taylor, C. (1996). Red data list of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Koopman, R., von Staden, L., Snijman, D.A. & von Witt, C. 2011. Moraea loubseri Goldblatt. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2017.1. Accessed on 2017/06/07.
Loubser, J. W. (1976). Vanishing bulbs of the veld: Moraea loubseri Goldblatt. Indig. Bulb Growers Assoc. S. Afr. Bull. 26: 3-4.
Lucas, Grenville Llewellyn and Synge, Hugh (compilers). (1978). The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN. 540 pp. [pp. 245-246]
Raimondo, D., Grieve, K., Helme, N., Koopman, R. and Ebrahim, I. (2013). Plants in Peril. Pretoria: South African National Biodiversity Institute. viii + 208 pp.
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.