Taxon name
Dactyloctenium scindicum
Boiss.
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National Red List Database
Taxonomic information
Scientific name
Dactyloctenium scindicum
Boiss.
Assessed taxon level
Species
Higher level taxonomic groupings
Plants
Flowering Plants
Location and scope
Specific locality or subnational name or regional name
United Arab Emirates (the)
Scope (of the Assessment)
National
Countries included within the scope of the assessment
United Arab Emirates (the)
Does the assessment cover a marine EEZ area(s)?
Not_assigned
Conservation Status
Assessed as
Least Concern
Criteria system used
IUCN
(see Assessment details)
Assessment rationale/justification
Within the UAE, this species is known from widespread, scattered records across the country. Although the species is likely to be negatively affected by coastal development, this threat is not thought to affect the entire distribution of the species. Therefore, it is assessed as Least Concern.
Assessment details
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
UAE National Red List Workshop
Criteria system used
IUCN
Reference for methods given
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.
Further information
Endemism (according to assessment)
Endemic to region
Not assigned
Taxon distribution as listed in assessment
This species is found in scattered locations within the east of the UAE. Jongbloed et al. (2003) report it from mountains and wadis, and show scattered point localities east of Al Ain, from near Hatta, and two other eastern localities, but also show a significant distribution along the coast east of Abu Dhabi city. Feulner (2011) reports occurrence in the Hajar Mountains (wadis, lower slopes, foothills and alluvial plains) without details. Mahmoud et al. (2018) reported the species from plantations along the western slopes of the Hajar Mountains. <a href=""http://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00003768"">RBGE Herbarium </a>holds a specimen from the east coast from the 'Kalba date gardens' (1993). The Sharjah Seedbank & Herbarium hold records of this species from near Wahala (Sharjah) to the east near the border with Oman, from the Ras Al-Khaimah coast east at Jazirat Al Hamra, from the Sharjah-Abu Dhabi border north of Al Shwalb, and from south of Dubai city. It has also been reported from Jebel Nazwar. The native distribution of this species is from north-east Africa (Egypt to Kenya) to north-west India, and it has been introduced to the Americas (Board of Trustees, RBG Kew 2018).
Is there a map available in assessment?
Incomplete
Habitat and systems
Ecological system type
Habitat
Habitat details as listed in assessment
Found in mountains and wadis, this is a perennial species with creeping rhizomes, forming moderate clumps and flowering from October to March (Jongbloed et al. 2003). Böer and Saenger (2006) and Qureshi (2017) considered this to be a species of sand sheets.
Threats and conservation measures listed
Threats listed in assessment
Coastal populations of this species in Abu Dhabi Emirate are assumed to have been impacted, but there is no information available on threats elsewhere within its range.
Publication
Allen, D.J., Westrip, J.R.S., Puttick, A., Harding, K.A., Hilton-Taylor, C. and Ali, H. 2021. UAE National Red List of Vascular Plants. Technical Report. Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, United Arab Emirates, Dubai.
