Aloe khamiesensis

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	LILIOPSIDA	LILIALES	ALOACEAE

Scientific Name:

Aloe khamiesensis

Species Authority:

Pillans

Common Name/s:

English

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Namaqua Aloe

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Data Deficient ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Hilton-Taylor, C.

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1997

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Insufficiently Known (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	A single-stemmed aloe with a fairly restricted distribution in the mountainous areas of Namaqualand and from near Calvinia.
Countries:	Native: South Africa (Northern Cape Province)
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Population [top]

Population:	At some localities, the number of plants have declined markedly.

Population:

At some localities, the number of plants have declined markedly.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:	Terrestrial

Systems:

Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Unscrupulous collection. However, it is not clear what affect this has had on the overall population.

Major Threat(s):

Unscrupulous collection. However, it is not clear what affect this has had on the overall population.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	The species is listed in CITES Appendix II.

Conservation Actions:

The species is listed in CITES Appendix II.

Citation:	Hilton-Taylor, C. 1998. Aloe khamiesensis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 May 2013.
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