Desmodium salicifolium LC Taxonomic Authority: (Poir.) DC. Global Assessment Regional Assessment Region: Global Endemic to region Synonyms Common Names Desmodium paleace Guill. & Perr. Upper Level Taxonomy Kingdom: PLANTAE Phylum: TRACHEOPHYTA Class: MAGNOLIOPSIDA Order: FABALES Family: LEGUMINOSAE Lower Level Taxonomy Rank: Infra- rank name: Plant Hybrid Subpopulation: Authority: General Information Distribution D. salicifolium has a large native range which stretches from Senegal in West Africa to South Africa and includes the islands of Madagascar and the Comoros. Range Size Elevation Biogeographic Realm Area of Occupancy: Upper limit: 2000 Afrotropical Extent of Occurrence: Lower limit: 0 Antarctic Map Status: Depth Australasian Upper limit: Neotropical Lower limit: Oceanian Depth Zones Palearctic Shallow photic Bathyl Hadal Indomalayan Photic Abyssal Nearctic Population There is no data relating to the population size of this species. Total Population Size Minimum Population Size: Maximum Population Size: Habitat and Ecology D. salicifolium is found in wet areas often at the edge of rain-forest; in swamps; in gallery forests and also wet grassland. This taxon is known to be found in rainforest areas in association with Chrysophyllum albidum, Cola gigantea, Parinari excelsa, Erythrophleum suaveolens and Milicia excelsa. System Movement pattern Crop Wild Relative Terrestrial Freshwater Nomadic Congregatory/Dispersive Is the species a wild relative of a crop? Marine Migratory Altitudinally migrant Growth From Definition Forb or Herb Biennial or perennial herbacaeous plant, also termed a Hemicryptophyte Shrub - size unkno Perennial shrub (any size), also termed a Phanerophyte if >1m or a Chamaephyte if <1m Threats D. salicifolium is not considered to be specifically threatened or in decline. Threats to this species are likely to be very general and localised in nature. Past Present Future 13 None Conservation Measures D. salicifolium is known to occur within the protected areas network across the species range. Seeds have been collected by the Millennium Seed Bank Project as an ex-situ conservation measure. In Place Needed 3 Research actions 3.2 Population numbers and range 3.4 Habitat status 3.5 Threats 3.8 Conservation measures 4 Habitat and site-based actions 4.4 Protected areas 5 Species-based actions 5.7 Ex situ conservation actions 5.7.2 Genome resource bank Countries of Occurrence PRESENCE ORIGIN Year Breeding Non- Passage Possibly ExtinctPresence Native Introduced Re- Vagrant Origin Round Season breeding migrant extinct uncertain Introduced uncertain only season only Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Côte d'Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Annobón Bioko Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Nigeria Réunion Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe General Habitats Score Description Major Importance 1 Forest 1UnsetSuitable 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland1Unset Suitable 1.8 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Swamp1Unset Suitable 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane1Unset Suitable 2 Savanna 1UnsetSuitable 2.2 Savanna - Moist1Unset Suitable 4 Grassland 1UnsetSuitable 4.6 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded1Unset Suitable Species Utilisation Species is not utilised at all Trend in the level of wild offtake/harvest in relation to total wild population numbers over the last five years: Trend in the amount of offtake/harvest produced through domestication/cultivation over the last five years: CITES status: Not listed IUCN Red Listing Red List Assessment:(using 2001 IUCN system) Least Concern (LC) Red List Criteria: Date Last Seen (only for EX, EW or Possibly EX species): Is the species Possibly Extinct? Possibly Extinct Candidate? Rationale for the Red List Assessment D. salicifolium is widespread, distributed across Africa from Sengal to South Africa including Madagascar and the Comoros. The taxon is known to occur within the protected areas network and seeds have been collected as a method of ex situ conservation. This taxon is not considered to be specifcally threatened and is known from recent collections and is thus rated as Least Concern. Reason(s) for Change in Red List Category from the Previous Assessment: Genuine Change Nongenuine Change No Change Genuine (recent) New information Taxonomy Same category Genuine (since first assessment) Knowledge of Criteria Criteria Revisio and criteria Incorrect data used Other Same category but previously change in criteria Current Population Trend: Stable Date of Assessment: 22/07/2010 Name(s) of the Assessor(s): Groom, A. Evaluator(s): Notes: % population decline in the past: Time period over which the past decline has been measured for applying Criterion A or C1 (in years or generations): % population decline in the future: Time period over which the future decline has been measured for applying Criterion A or C1 (in years or generations): Number of Locations: Severely Fragmented: Number of Mature Individuals: Bibliography Gillett,J.B.; Polhill, R.M. & Verdcourt, B., 1971, Flora of Tropical East Africa - Leguminosae: subfamily Papilionoideae, , Royal Botanical Garden's, Kew Internation Legume Database Information System, 2005, Desmodium salicifolium, , , Lebrun, J.P. & Stork, A. 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