Bothalia 26,2: 177-182(1996) Red Data List of southern African plants. 1. corrections and additions C. HILTON-TAYLOR* The recently published Red Data List of southern Af­ angustissimum (E.Mey.) T.J.Edwards. Its Extinct (Ex) rican plants (Hilton-Taylor 1996), by its very nature, is status is unchanged. dynamic and constantly changing. It was therefore pro­ 5. Brachystelma discoideum R.A.Dyer was incorrectly posed that any corrections to the List, such as changes in listed as being globally Rare (R) and endemic to the FSA names, conservation status and distributions; deletions; region. S. Venter (pers. comm.) reports that it also occurs and new additions, should be published annually in in Botswana and Zimbabwe. Pending further details, its Bothalia to provide users of the List with information as global status and status in Botswana should be changed up-to-date as possible. These corrections and additions to Insufficiently Known (K). will form a series similar to the contributions to the Flora 6. Ceropegia filiformis (Burch.) Schltr. is now known of southern Africa (FSA) published in Bothalia as ‘FSA to occur on the Great Karas Mountains in southern Na­ contributions’. mibia where it is fairly common, and there have also been a number of new collections from the Northern and East­ It should be noted that all corrections and comments ern Cape (Bruyns 1995). The conservation status for this given here pertain only to the information published in species should therefore be changed from Rare (R) locally the Red Data List (Hilton-Taylor 1996), whereas the ad­ (Cape) and globally to not threatened (nt) and a status of ditions are new records which must be added to the List. nt should be listed under Namibia (N). The Vulnerable Readers are referred to Hilton-Taylor (1996) for an expla­ (V) status under the Free State (O) remains unchanged as nation of the methodology used and for definitions of all it is only known from a single collection made in that the terms. The old IUCN Red Data Categories have been province (Bruyns 1995). used here again, rather than the new categories. A depar­ 7. The status of Coelidium obtusilobum Granby, should ture from the methodology described in Hilton-Taylor be changed from Rare (R) to Endangered (E) as it is only (1996) is the use of the new South African provinces. The known from the type collection made by Elsie Esterhuysen abbreviations for the old provinces are, however, given in in 1954. As this area has been fairly well collected this brackets so that information is comparable to that in the species may even be Extinct (Ex). published List. Name changes for those taxa in the Red Data List whose conservation status is not threatened (nt), 8. Coelidium vlokii A.L.Schutte & B.-E.van Wyk, is neither locally nor globally, are not given here. Changes threatened by agricultural activities and its status should in conservation status (hereafter referred to as status) ap­ be changed from Rare (R) to Endangered (E). ply to both the local and global level, unless otherwise 9. Nordal & Fangan (1994) have shown that Crinum specified. Corrections, additions or deletions of taxa in zeylanicum (L.) L., pro parte, sensu Nordal (1977) should the Extinct, Endangered or Vulnerable categories should be regarded as a synonym of Crinum omatum (L.f. ex also be made in Appendix 2 where necessary. Aiton) Bury. Crinum kirkii sensu Verdoom in Bothalia 11: 38 (1973) non Baker, previously listed as a synonym of C. zeylanicum (L.) L., should therefore also be listed as CORRECTIONS a synonym of C. omatum. The conservation status re­ mains not threatened (nt) as it is a common widespread 1. The status of Amphithalea rostrata A.L.Schutte & taxon. B.-E.van Wyk, should be changed from Rare (R) to En­ 10. Cyclopia bowieana Harv. is not as scarce as pre­ dangered (E) as it is only known from a small population viously thought and its status should be changed from near Pearly Beach on the Agulhas Plain. Indeterminate (I) to not threatened (nt). 2. The author citation for Apodolirion lanceolatum 11. Cyclopia burtonii Hofmeyr & E.Phillips (note the should be (Thunb.) Baker not (L.f.) Benth. (Hilliard & corrected spelling of Hofmeyr) is a scarce endemic from Burtt 1973). the upper slopes of the Great Swartberg Mountains. As it 3. A population of Argyrolobium crinitum (E.Mey.) is susceptible to frequent burning, the conservation status Walp. (Edwards 1996) was recently rediscovered (J.H.J. should be changed from Indeterminate (I) to Rare (R). Vlok pers. comm.). The conservation status of this attrac­ 12. Several attempts to relocate Cyclopia filiformis tive shrub should therefore be changed from Extinct (Ex) Kies, have been unsuccessful; the conservation status to Endangered (E). The population comprises only a should therefore be changed from Insufficiently Known dozen plants along a road verge and approximately 200 (K) to Extinct (Ex) (A.L. Schutte pers. comm.). individuals in a remnant piece of Renosterveld vegetation between wheat fields. 13. The status of Cyclopia latifolia DC. should be changed from Vulnerable (V) to Endangered (E) as it is 4. Argyrolobium sp. nov. (Drege s.n., BM) has been known only from two sites, one comprising 23 plants and formally described by Edwards (1996) as Argyrolobium the other just a single individual (J.H. de Lange pers. comm.) • Ecology and Conservation Unit, National Botanical Institute, Private 14. Cyclopia pubescens Eckl. & Zeyh. is severely threat­ Bag X7, Claremont 7737, Cape Town. ened by expanding urbanisation and its status should be MS received: 1996-07-09. changed from Insufficiently Known (K) to Endangered (E). Bothalia 26,2(1996) 178 15. The conservation status of Echiostachys spicatus 25. The conservation status of Liparia angustifolia (Burm.f.) Levyns was incorrectly given as Vulnerable (V); (Eckl. & Zeyh.) A.L.Schutte should be changed from In­ this should be changed to Rare (R) (Hall & Veldhuis 1985). sufficiently Known (K) to Endangered (E). This species occurs in marshy areas along the coast between the Cape 16. The realisation that plants named as Encephalartos Peninsula and Hermanus and many populations have been lebomboensis I.Verd. from the Lebombo Mountain range destroyed by coastal developments. in KwaZulu-Natal and Swaziland were incorrectly iden­ tified and represent a separate and undescribed species 26. The status of Liparia splendens (Burm.f.) Bos & (Vorster 1995, 1996e) means that the distribution and de Wit subsp. splendens, should be changed from Insuf­ status of E. lebomboensis needs to be corrected. E. le­ ficiently Known (K) to Rare (R). bomboensis only occurs in the Pongola River valley of 27. Liparia laevigata (L.) Thunb. is confined to the KwaZulu-Natal (KN) with a disjunct population on the Cape Peninsula, occurring only in marshy places on Con- Lebombo range in Mpumalanga (T) (Vorster 1996e). As stantiaberg and Table Mountain; its status should be a result of its reduced distribution range and population changed from Insufficiently Known (K) to Rare (R). size, the conservation status of this species should be up­ 28. Liparia myrtifolia Thunb., is now known to have graded from Rare (R) to Vulnerable (V) in both provinces a wide distribution in the southwestern Cape occurring on and globally. The conservation status given under Swazi­ many mountain ranges where it appears to be secure. Its land should be deleted. conservation status should therefore be changed from In­ 17. The population of E. lebomboensis in the Pongola sufficiently Known (K) to not threatened (nt). River valley has popularly been referred to as the 'Piet 29. Lobostemon sp. nov. (Buys 432, STE) is now for­ Retief’ form (Vorster 1995) and hence the use of Encepha­ mally described as Lobostemon belliformis Buys (Buys & lartos sp. nov. ‘Piet Retiefii’ (Vorster 2977, PRE) in the Van der Walt 1996). Its conservation status needs to be Red Data List (Hilton-Taylor 1996). Following the taxo­ changed from Vulnerable (V) to Endangered (E), as only nomic changes described above, this ‘name’ must now be twenty plants are known to survive in the wild (Buys & placed into synonymy under E. lebomboensis (Vorster van der Walt 1996). 1995). 30. Podalyria burchellii DC. is incorrectly recorded as 18. Encephalartos sp. nov. ‘Msinga’ (Vorster 2949, occurring in KwaZulu-Natal. Its status remains un­ PRE) was formally described by Vorster (1996c) as changed. Encephalartos msinganus Vorster. Its conservation status 31. Podalyria cordata (Thunb.) R.Br., although local­ is still Endangered (E). ised, is not as threatened as previously thought and its 19. Encephalartos sp. nov. ‘venitus’ (Steyn 318, PRE) status should be changed from Vulnerable (V) to Rare was recently described by Vorster (1996d) as Encephalar­ (R). tos venetus Vorster. Unbeknown to Vorster, a manuscript 32. Recent attempts to relocate Podalyria microphylla decribing this taxon as Encephalartos nubimontanus E.Mey. in its natural habitat, have been unsuccessful, and P.J.H.Hurter, was submitted almost simultaneously for its status should therefore be changed from Indeterminate publication elsewhere (Hurter 1995; Hurter & Claassen (I) to Extinct (Ex). Its habitat has largely been replaced 1996). As E. nubimontanus was effectively and validly by urbanisation. published before E. venetus, it is accepted as the correct 33. The <D> which occurs after the author citation for name for the taxon while E. venetus is regarded as a syno­ Podalyria velutina Burch, ex Benth. is a typographical nym. The conservation status of this taxon remains En­ error which should be deleted. dangered (E). 34. The following entry should be inserted into Appen­ 20. E.G.H. Oliver (pers. comm.) has found that speci­ dix 3: Polycarena capitatum Benth. sensu Hall et al. mens previously named as Erica parvulisepala H.A.Baker, (1980) see Phyllopodium heterophyllum (Lf) Benth.