Pseudoscolopia polyantha

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	VIOLALES	FLACOURTIACEAE

Scientific Name:	Pseudoscolopia polyantha
Species Authority	Gilg.

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Lower Risk/near threatened ver 2.3

Year Assessed:

1998

Assessor/s

Hilton-Taylor, C. <i>et al.</i>

History:

1997

–

Rare (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Found in the Transkei, Eastern Cape, and southern KwaZulu-Natal, with a disjunct distribution in the Noodsberg area of KwaZulu-Natal and a very strange isolated occurrence on the Piketberg in the Western Cape.
Countries:	Native: South Africa (Eastern Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape Province)

Population [top]

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	A shrub or small tree, found mainly on forest margins. Many of the subpopulations occur on soils derived from sandstone.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Habitat destruction through cutting for firewood and timber and increasing settlement could pose a problem here, especially at forest margins.

Major Threat(s):

Habitat destruction through cutting for firewood and timber and increasing settlement could pose a problem here, especially at forest margins.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	The species occurs in the Umtamvuna Nature Reserve and in a number of demarcated forest areas in the Transkei, which are no longer strictly protected.

Conservation Actions:

The species occurs in the Umtamvuna Nature Reserve and in a number of demarcated forest areas in the Transkei, which are no longer strictly protected.

Citation:	Hilton-Taylor, C. et al. 1998. Pseudoscolopia polyantha. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 November 2008.
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