Seddera latifolia | UAE National Red List of Vascular Plants
Taxa
Seddera latifolia | Hochst. & Steud.
Location
Does the assessment cover a marine EEZ area(s)?
Off
Scope (Assessment)
National
Taxon
Taxonomic Group Level 2
Flowering Plants
Assessed taxon level
Species
Taxon distribution as listed in assessment
Only three records of this species have been found for the UAE. An isotype was collected ""in the mountains"" in the UAE (presumably the Hajar Mountains) by Schimper in 1844 (held at <a href=""https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/11601/_HERBARW_NHMV_AUSTRIA_87887.html"">Natural History Museum, Vienna - Herbarium W</a>). G.R. Feulner (in litt, MEW 2010) collected the species in 2004-5 from cemented dune sands at the mountain front adjacent to the Qurayyah wetland: an artificial wetland near the base of cliffs on the coastal plain north of Fujairah created by sewage dumping that has since been destroyed by development (Feulner 2016, G.R. Feulner pers. comm. 2019). Demissew and Mill (2009) reviewed a specimen from Hatta (hills and foothills, 300 m asl; specimen collected in 1986 and voucher held at <a href=""http://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00421795"">RBG Edinburgh</a>). This species has a wide native range from the Sahara to Tanzania in Africa, through the Arabian Peninsula, to north-west India (Board of Trustees, RBG Kew 2019).
Habitats and Ecology
Ecological system type
Habitat
Habitat details as listed in assessment
Demissew and Mill (2009) give the general habitat as open Acacia woodland: sparse vegetation cover with Acacia, Maerua and Euphorbia species on stony ground, rocky slopes on limestone, basalt granite or shale, extending from sea level to 1,500 (- 2,000) m elevation. In the UAE, the Hatta specimen was collected from limestone foothills/hills, whilst the coastal specimen was collected from an artificial wetland created by sewage dumping at the base of cliffs. The plant is a low, bushy under-shrub, usually found on open rocky slopes (Kumar and Purohit 2015).
Is there a map available in assessment?
Not possible
Assessed status
Asessment status in full
Data Deficient
Assessment status abreviation
DD
Assessment rationale/justification
Only three records of this species have been found for the UAE. An isotype specimen was collected in 1844 in the UAE (locality not known, but assumed to be the Hajar Mountains). A second record, from the Hatta region, is from 1986. The final, most recent, record from 2004-5 is from Qurayyah on the east coast in Fujairah, and is assumed to have been destroyed by development. Confirmation of the continued presence, distribution and population status of this species is needed, and at present it is assessed as Data Deficient.
About the assessment
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
UAE National Red List Workshop
Affliation of assessor(s)/contributors/reviewers listed on assessment
Assessor affiliation specific
Government|IGO
Criteria system
Criteria system specifics
IUCN v3.1 + Regional Guidelines v4.0
Criteria system used
IUCN
Criteria Citation
IUCN. 2012. IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1, Second edition. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. iv + 32pp pp. And IUCN. 2012. Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels: Version 4.0. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iii + 41pp.
Endemism
Endemism Notes
Is an endemic?: Not_assigned
Conservation
Threats listed in assessment
Ongoing development is thought to have destroyed at least one site. Nothing is known of threats at the site near Hatta.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Scientific Name
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Seddera latifolia
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Convolvulaceae
Seddera
