Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Ekebergia capensis Sparrm.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Ekebergia capensis
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
Sparrm.
Common names
Cape-ash, Ekebergia, Large-Leaved Cape-Ash, Mountain-Ash, The Ash, dog-plum
Names in other languages (84)Cape Ash, Dog Plum, Es, Esseboom, Essehout, Kaapse essenhout, Kap-Esche, Mmidibidi, Mountain Ash (EN), Mununga, Mutobvuma, Mutomo, Muzamo, Rooi-essehout, Rooi-essenhout, Transvaal-essenhout, Transvaalessehout, Umgwenya-uizinja, Umnyamathi, Vaalessehout, Witessenhout, ekebergia kapská, esboom, essenboom, essenhout, fdg, houtniquas Essen, iNyamati, isimanaye, kaapse-essenhout, kapinkapteeninmarja, mkuna, mmaba, mmidibidibi, motshai, msirima, mudouma, mudėouma, mungombayami, mutovuma, mutėovuma, muvulamono, mynyonga, nyamarhi, nyamarhu, ol mukuna, olmkuna, olmkuno, osongoroi, rooiessenhout, taeewi, transvaalessenhout, uMathunzi wentaba, uMathunzini, uMathunzini-wentaba, uMathunzini-wezintaba, uMathunziniwe-zintaba, uMathuzini, umGwenya-wezinja, umGwenye-wezinja, umGwenyezinja, umGwenyuizinja, umGwenyuizinya, umNyama, umQuehle, umanaye, umathunzini-we-zintaba, umathuzini-wentaba, umgwenya wezinja, umgwenyana wezinja, umgwenye, umgwenye wezinja, umgwenye wezinya, umgwenyobomvu, umlahleni selefile, umnyamati, umnyamatsi, umthoma, unGwenye wezinja, usimanaye, uvungu, vaal-essenhout, vaalessenhout, wesinja
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Sapindales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Meliaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Ekebergia
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
capensis
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Ekebergia capensis
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-09 09:29.
Photo of Ekebergia capensis Sparrm.
Photo: Henry de Lange · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Ekebergia capensis Sparrm.
Photo: Shaun Swanepoel · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Ekebergia capensis Sparrm.
Photo: Andrew Gillespie · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Ekebergia capensis Sparrm.
Photo: Amy Riordan · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Ekebergia capensis Sparrm.
Photo: Di Turner · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Ekebergia capensis Sparrm.
Photo: Prince Molokomme · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 09:29.

Interacciones documentadas

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Types shown: 10 of 10 is eaten by × is a host of × is dispersed by × interacts with × has as a vector × is adjacent to × is ecologically related to × has as a parasite × is a symbiont of × has its flowers visited by ×

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is eaten by 54 organisms

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Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus Pycnonotidae is eaten by 3 not compared
Trumpeter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinator Bucerotidae is eaten by 3 not compared
African Green-pigeon Treron calvus Columbidae is eaten by 2 not compared
Black-bellied Starling Notopholia corrusca is eaten by 2 not compared
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is a host of 10 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
White-barred Charaxes Charaxes brutus Nymphalidae is a host of 5 no location
Meliola rhois Meliolaceae is a host of 2 no location
Pseudocercospora ekebergiae Mycosphaerellaceae is a host of 1 no location
Pseudobunaea tyrrhena Saturniidae is a host of 1 no location
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is dispersed by 5 organisms

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Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus Lybiidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Yellow-bellied Greenbul Chlorocichla flaviventris Pycnonotidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Sombre Greenbul Andropadus importunus Pycnonotidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus Pycnonotidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
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interacts with 5 organisms

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Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Psyllaephagus capeneri Encyrtidae interacts with 2 no location
Axestotrigona ferruginea Apidae interacts with 1 no location
Ceratitis divaricata Tephritidae interacts with 1 not compared
Ceratitis divaricata interacts with 1 not compared
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has as a vector 3 organisms

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Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Trumpeter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinator Bucerotidae has as a vector 1 no location
Knysna Turaco Tauraco corythaix Musophagidae has as a vector 1 no location
Unknown Apidae has as a vector 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes no name for this organism.
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is adjacent to 1 organism

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Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Psyllaephagus capeneri Encyrtidae is adjacent to 1 no location
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

is ecologically related to 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Orange River White-eye Zosterops pallidus Zosteropidae is ecologically related to 1 not compared
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has as a parasite 1 organism

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Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Psyllaephagus capeneri Encyrtidae has as a parasite 1 no location
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

is a symbiont of 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Fungi Including Lichens Fungi is a symbiont of 1 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at kingdom level.
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Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Meliplebeia beccarii Apidae has its flowers visited by 1 no location
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Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

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