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Serruria ciliata congesta (R.Br.) Hutch. (year?)

Macassar spiderhead

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonyms: Serruria congesta R.Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 10: 123 (1810); Serruria aemula congesta (R. Br.) 1810 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct (source) or Extinct in the wild (?) or Invalid (synonym of S. aemula) (Rebelo et al., 2020a,b) or (synonym of S. aemula) (POWO, 2024)

Last record: 1980's (source)

 

Distribution

South Africa

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

Above: specimen in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden. Photo by Abu Shawka in 2010. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

 

References

POWO. (2024). Serruria millefolia Knight. Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 31 March 2024]

Rebelo, A. G., Raimondo, D., von Staden, L. and van der Merwe, J. (2020a). Serruria aemula Salisb. ex Knight. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version. Accessed on 2024/03/31.

Rebelo, A. G., Raimondo, D., von Staden, L. and van der Merwe, J. (2020b). Serruria aemula. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T113230212A185594112. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T113230212A185594112.en. Accessed on 31 March 2024.

https://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/2697/serruria-aemula-ssp-congesta

https://www.proteaatlas.org.za/Protea_Atlas_Serruria3.pdf#page=7

 

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