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Circandra serrata (L.) N.E.Br. (1930:126)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Mesembryanthemum serratum L. in Sp. Pl.: 485 (1753); Erepsia serrata (L.) L.Bolus in Notes Mesembryanthemum 3: 228 (1950); Mesembryanthemum serratifolium Steud. in Nomencl. Bot. 1: 527 (1821), orth. var.

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1913 (Klak et al., 2006; Klak & Low, 2007; Raimondo et al., 2013:150)

Rediscovered in November 2005 by Barrie Low (Klak & Low, 2007; contra Hernández-Ledesma et al., 2015 [who state 2007])

 

Distribution

Tulbagh to Villiersdorp, Western Cape Province, South Africa

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

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References

Germishuizen, G. and Meyer, N. L. (eds.). (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.

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.

Hernández-Ledesma, Patricia et al. (2015). A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Willdenowia 45(3): 281-383.

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

Hilton-Taylor, Craig (compiler). (1997). Annex 8: Threatened succulents recorded for the Flora of southern Africa (FSA) region, pp. 179-184. In: Oldfield, Sara (compiler). Cactus and Succulent Plants: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Cactus and Succulent Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 10 + 212 pp.

Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]

Klak, Cornelia and Low, A. Barrie. (2007). The re-discovery of a long lost vygie, Circandra serrata. Veld & Flora 93(2): 73-107. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC113068

Klak, Cornelia, Low, A. Barrie and Raimondo, D. (2006). Circandra serrata (L.) N.E.Br. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version 2017.1. Accessed on 2017/06/03

POWO. (2018). Plants of the World online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://e-monocot.org/.

POWO. (2024). Circandra serrata (L.) N.E.Br. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 28 January 2024]

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.

Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.

 

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