National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004 (Act No. 10 of 2004)

Notices

Non-Detriment find Assessment for Aloe ferox (Bitter Aloe)

Table 1: Detailed NDF assessment for Aloe ferox undertaken in accordance with the CITES NDF checklist.

National status

5. National distribution
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How is the species distributed nationally?

Widespread, contiguous in country

1

Widespread, fragmented in country

2

Restricted and fragmented

3

Localized

4

Uncertain

5

 

Aloe ferox has a restricted distribution within South Africa (Figure 3) extending from the Western Cape Province, intermittently throughout the Eastern Cape, and up into south -eastern Free State (Smith et al., 2016). The species also occurs in southern Lesotho (Smith et al., 2016). Previous records of A. ferox in the KwaZulu-Natal Province (e.g., Shackleton and Gambiza 2007), have been confirmed as the similar looking Aloe candelabrum, a species that was recently resurrected from the synonymy with Aloe ferox (Smith et al., 2016).

 

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Figure 3: National distribution range of Aloe ferox (generated using information from the Smith et al., 2016 distribution map and SANBI BODATSA Data)