EXTINCT & THREATENED Endemism: Endemic ACANTHACEAE ANNONACEAE Threats: Harvesting, collection Distribution: Niassa, Zambézia Blepharis dunensis Vollesen Hexabolus mossambicensis N.Robson This species is apparently cultivated around Quelimane Status: VU B1B2cD2 Status: VU D2 and the trunks are used for dugout canoes. Found in a Endemism: Endemic Endemism: Endemic? variety of habitats. Threats: Mining Distribution: Nampula, Cabo Delgado, Niassa Distribution: Zambézia, Nampula Reported to be rare. Known only from about five Coastal sand dunes, 0–25 m. Eight records from four localities in forest. CANELLACEAE localities, including recent collections from Moebase and Moma. Xylopia collina Diels Warburgia salutaris Engl. Status: VU D2 Status: VU A2cd Blepharis gazensis Vollesen Endemism: Near-endemic Threats: Harvesting Status: VU B1B2cD2 Distribution: Cabo Delgado Distribution: Maputo Endemism: Endemic It is found in open woodland or thickets and on Common name ‘chibaha’. Fairly common in southern Distribution: Gaza termitaria at 200–810 m. Also in Tanzania. Mozambique. Wide distribution range outside Colophospermum woodland. Mozambique but heavily utilised according to baseline reports. Global status is Endangered. Blepharis swaziensis Vollesen APIACEAE Status: VU D2 Endemism: Near-endemic Centella obtriangularis Cannon CAPPARACEAE Threats: Habitat degradation Status: VU D2 Distribution: Maputo Endemism: Endemic Maerua andradae Wild Open bushland and grassland. Lebombo narrow Distribution: Manhica Status: VU D2 endemic. Also in South Africa and Swaziland. Endemic to Chimanimanis, known from the Mozambique Endemism: Endemic side. In wet grassy slopes or banks. Distribution: Cabo Delgado, Niassa Blepharis torrei Vollesen It is found in low-altitude Acacia woodland. Status: VU D2 Endemism: Near-endemic ASTERACEAE Maerua scandens (Klotzsch) Gilg Distribution: Niassa Status: VU D2 Two collections from a locality in Mozambique (one Vernonia muelleri Wild subsp. muelleri Endemism: Endemic from Tanzania). Acacia–Brachystegia boehmii wooded Status: VU D2 Distribution: Gaza grassland on concrete-like clayey hardpan, altitude Endemism: Near-endemic The species is known from dense Brachystegia MOZAMBIQUE 875 m. Distribution: Manhica woodland, apparently rather rare. Chimanimani endemic. Also in Zimbabwe. Duvernoia aconitiflora A.Meeuse Status: VU B1B2cD2 CELASTRACEAE Endemism: Near-endemic? BALSAMINACEAE Threats: Damming, agriculture Elaeodendron fruticosum N.Robson Distribution: Maputo Impatiens psycantha Launert Status: VU B1B2cD2 Forest margins, sometimes along rivers. It is probable Status: VU D2 Endemism: Endemic MOZAMBIQUE that the Umbeluzi Dam has had an impact, the species Endemism: Endemic Distribution: Inhambane, Gaza could be extinct in Mozambique. One collection from Distribution: Nampula, Zambézia Known only from the thicket in coastal areas. Swaziland (Hlatikulu); also in South Africa. Altitude of 800 m. Found in Brachystegia forest. Maytenus mossambicensis (Klotz.) Blakelock var. Impatiens psychadelphiodes Launert guruenensis N.Robson AMARANTHACEAE Status: VU D2 Status: VU D2 Endemism: Endemic Endemism: Endemic? Celosia pandurata Baker Threats: Agriculture Distribution: Zambézia Status: VU D2 Distribution: Zambézia, Sofala Known only from two collections. Endemism: Endemic Distribution: Manhica e Sofala, Tete, Zambézia Impatiens salpinx Schulze & Launert Known from forests in central Mozambique. Status: VU D2 CHENOPODIACEAE Endemism: Near-endemic Distribution: Manhica Sarcocornia mossambicensis Brenan ANACARDIACEAE Altitude of 1,550 m. In wet conditions. Also in Status: EN B1B2c Zimbabwe. Endemism: Endemic Lannea stuhlmannii (Engl.) Engl. var. tomentosa Threats: Habitat degradation, urban expansion, Dunkley desiccation Status: VU D2 BIGNONIACEAE Distribution: Inhambane Endemism: Endemic? Apparently confined to a few salt marshes. Distribution: Tete, Manhica Dolichandrone alba (Sim) Sprague Widespread in the Flora zambesiaca area. Status: VU B1B2cD2 Sarcocornia natalensis (Bunge) A.J.Scott Endemism: Endemic Status: VU B1B2cD2 Ozoroa gomeziana R. & A.Fern. Threats: Habitat degradation, harvesting Threats: Habitat degradation, urban expansion, Status: VU D2 Distribution: Gaza, Maputo, Inhambane desiccation Endemism: Endemic Found in dry deciduous woodland, fringing forests or Distribution: Maputo Distribution: Inhambane thickets on sandy soils mainly near the coast. This is a Apparently confined to a few salt-marshes. Also in Known only from the type. utilised species. South Africa. Rhus refracta Eckl. & Zeyh. Suaeda sp. Caldeira & Marques 599 Status: VU D2 BOMBACACEAE Status: EX Distribution: Sofala Endemism: Endemic Found in deciduous forest. Also in South Africa. Rhodognaphalon mossambicense (A.Robyns) Threats: Habitat degradation, urban expansion, A.Robyns desiccation Bombax mossambicensis-A.Robyns Distribution: Maputo Status: VU D2 Known only from one specimen (collected in 1965) EXTINCT & THREATENED 49 which is known from salt marshes near the coast. The Crassula morrumbalensis R.Fern. only taxon in this genus in the Flora zambesiaca region Status: VU B1B2cD2 EUPHORBIACEAE that grows near the coast. Endemism: Endemic Threats: Agriculture, habitat degradation Croton aceroides Radcl.-Sm. Distribution: Zambézia, Gaza Status: VU D2 COMBRETACEAE In the savannas of mountainous slopes. Endemism: Endemic Distribution: Inhambane Combretum caudatisepalum Exell & Garcia Kalanchoe fernandesii Raym.-Hamet Locally common on the margins of dry coastal forest in Status: VU D2 Status: VU B1B2cD2 pallid sands. The species is known only from the type Endemism: Endemic Endemism: Endemic collection. Distribution: Nampula, Niassa Threats: Fire Reported to be rare. Known only from about five Distribution: Nampula Croton inhambanensis Radcl.-Sm. localities in thickets. Known only from the type locality (1950). In xerophytic Status: VU D2 forest near the river or in open places in forests. Endemism: Endemic Combretum stocksii Sprague Distribution: Inhambane Status: VU D2 Pterocephalus centenii Cannon This is a very distinctive species. It is known only from Endemism: Endemic Status: VU D2 two collections. It is found on low-altitude coastal Distribution: Zambézia, Cabo Delgado, Niassa Endemism: Endemic plains in dry sandy soils with Androstachys johnsonii. In dense evergreen forest. Distribution: Manhica This species is known only from the type specimen. Croton leuconeurus Pax subsp. mossambicensis Pteleopsis barbosae Exell Found at the edge of a cloud forest dominated by Radcl.-Sm. Status: VU D2 Podocarpus. Status: VU D2 Endemism: Endemic Endemism: Endemic Distribution: Niassa Distribution: Manhica e Sofala At low elevation in Acacia savanna. CUCURBITACEAE Euphorbia plenispina S.Carter Coccinia subglabra C.Jeffrey Status: VU D2 COMMELINACEAE Status: VU D2 Endemism: Endemic Endemism: Endemic Distribution: Sofala, Inhambane Triceratella drummondii Brenan Distribution: Nampula Known only from the type (Carvalho 1019 (1968)). Status: VU D2 Found in coastal forest at 40–130 m. Known only from Found amongst lichens. Endemism: Near-endemic? this locality. Distribution: Nampula Known only from two collections (Mozambique and FLACOURTIACEAE Zimbabwe). DICHAPETALACEAE Homalium mossambicensis Paiva Dichapetalum zambesianum Torre Status: VU B1B2cD2 CONNARACEAE Status: VU D2 Endemism: Endemic Endemism: Endemic Distribution: Cabo Delgado, Zambézia Rourea minor (Gaertn.) Alston Distribution: Cabo Delgado, Zambézia In lowland forest. Status: VU D2 In deciduous and secondary woodland. Endemism: Endemic? Distribution: Sofala Dichapetalum mendoncae Torre GESNERIACEAE Known only from a single collection. Status: VU D2 Endemism: Endemic Streptocarpus brachynema Hilliard & B.L.Burtt Distribution: Inhambane Status: VU D2 MOZAMBIQUE CONVOLVULACEAE In mixed woodland. Endemism: Endemic Gorongoza endemic. On rocks or tree trunks in forest. Ipomoea venosa (Desr.) Roem & Schultes var. obtusifolola Verdc. EBENACEAE Streptocarpus grandis N.E.Br. subsp. Status: VU B1B2cD2 septentrionalis Hilliard & B.L.Burtt Endemism: Endemic Diospyros anitae F.White Status: VU D2 Threats: Habitat degradation Status: VU D2 Endemism: Near-endemic? Distribution: Maputo Endemism: Endemic Distribution: Manhica Distribution: Nampula Chimanimani endemic. On damp quartzitic rock in Turbina longiflora Verdc. Known only from the type locality. Found in stream gullies. Also in Zimbabwe. Status: VU D2 Brachystegia woodland at 450 m. Endemism: Endemic Streptocarpus michelmorei B.L.Burtt Distribution: Inhambane, Maputo, Gaza Status: VU D2 In sandy soil at 310 m. It is a glabrous herb. ERICACEAE Endemism: Near-endemic? Distribution: Manhica Erica pleiotricha S.Moore var. blaerioides (Wild) Chimanimani endemic. Also in Zimbabwe. CRASSULACEAE R.Ross Status: VU D2 Streptocarpus myoporoides Hilliard & B.L.Burtt Crassula expansa Dryand. var. longifolia R.Fern. Endemism: Near-endemic? Status: VU D2 Status: VU D2 Distribution: Manhica e Sofala, Maputo Endemism: Endemic Endemism: Endemic Found in damp places amongst rocks near summits of Distribution: Nampula Distribution: Inhambane mountains at altitudes of 900–2,300 m. Also in Zimbabwe. Crassula leachii R.Fern. LEGUMINOSAE: CAESALPINIOIDEAE Status: VU D2 Erica pleiotricha S.Moore var. pleiotricha Endemism: Endemic Status: VU D2 Icuria dunensis Wieringa Threats: Agriculture, habitat degradation Endemism: Near-endemic? Status: EN A2c Distribution: Manhica e Sofala Distribution: Manhica e Sofala, Maputo Endemism: Endemic Known from granite rocks. Known only from