| IUCN Species Information Service (SIS) Toolkit |
| Assessment Report | |
| Taxonomy | ||||
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| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
| PLANTAE | TRACHEOPHYTA | MAGNOLIOPSIDA | ASTERALES | CAMPANULACEAE |
| Scientific Name: | Cyphia bolusii |
| Species Authority: | E.Phillips |
| Common Name/s: - | |
| Synonym/s: | - |
| Taxonomic Notes: | - |
| Assessment Information | |
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern N/A |
| Year Assessed: | 2023 |
| Assessor/s: | Braun, K. |
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| Justification: Cyphia bolusii has an estimated extent of occurrence of 25,175.683 km2 although nearly all the records fall within a much smaller range. The area of occupancy is 68 km2. There are ongoing threats to this plant from habitat degradation from overgrazing by livestock through most of its range, and possible expansion of forestry plantations. However, at the time of this assessment there is no evidence in a decline in the population of this species, and based on this, it has been assessed as Least Concern. Date last seen: 2022 | |
| History: | - |
| Geographic Range | |
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| Range Description: | This species has been recorded from the Eswatini highveld, from the neighbouring areas in Mpumalanga and two more widespread records, one from the Underberg area, and one from the Volksrust area. |
| Countries: | Native: Eswatini; KwaZulu-Natal; Mpumalanga; |
| Population | |
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| Population: | No detailed population surveys have been conducted for this species. It appears to be fairly widespread within the Eswatini highveld areas, in grassland that has not been subjected to heavy grazing and burning. For the purposes of this assessment, it has been assumed that this species still occurs in localities from older records, as appropriate habitat still exists in these areas. |
| Population Trend: | Unknown |
| Habitat and Ecology | |
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| Habitat and Ecology: | This species has been recorded from primarily grassland areas, in vegetation types KaNgwane Montane Grassland (Gm16), Ithala Quartzite Sourveld (Gs2), Barberton Montane Grassland (Gm17), and Swaziland Sour Bushveld (SVI14) within Eswatini, and from Amersfoort Highveld Clay Grassland (Gm13), Barberton Montane Grassland (Gm17) and Drakensberg Foothill Moist Grassland (Gs10) in South Africa (Mucina et. al. 2018). The two records which appear to be from the Swaziland Sour Bushveld might be misleading, due to only approximate locality information being available for these records. |
| List of Habitats: | 4 Grassland 4.7 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude |
| Threats | |
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| Major Threat(s): | The highveld grassland areas both in Eswatini and South Africa are under pressure from heavy grazing and expansion of forestry plantations. |
| List of Threats: | 2 Agriculture & aquaculture 2.2 Wood & pulp plantations 2.2.2 Agro-industry plantations 2.3 Livestock farming & ranching 2.3.2 Small-holder grazing, ranching or farming |
| Conservation Actions | |
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| Conservation Actions: | The known distribution of this species includes records from within Malolotja Nature Reserve in Eswatini and Songimvelo Game Reserve in South Africa. These however only account for a small proportion of the range of this species. |
| List of Conservation Actions: | - |
| Bibliography | |
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| Bachman
S, Moat J, Hill AW, de la Torre J and Scott B. 2011. Supporting Red
List threat assessments with GeoCAT geospatial conservation tool. In:
Smith V, Penev L (Eds) e-Infrastructure for data publishing in
biodiversity science. . ZooKeys 150: 117-126. Mucina, L., Rutherford, M.C. and Powrie, L.W. (Editors). 2018. The Vegetation Map of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. South African National Biodiversity Institute. Available at: http://bgis.sanbi.org/Projects/Detail/186. | |
| Citation: | - |