Alopecurus baptarrhenius

This species has five locations with the major threats considered to be habitat conversion to agriculture and settlement. The area of grassland habitat in the Bale Mountains, where most herbarium specimens have been collected, declined by 9.36% between 1985 and 2017, whereas the area of farmland increased by 43.67% in the same period (Annissa and Eyasu 2021). The same study found that the grassland habitat had also become more fragmented. At Dinsho in the Bale Mountains and at Debre Birhan the species is threatened by settlement expansion. The location in the Simien Mountains appears to be less threatened than the other locations, although satellite imagery reveals that agriculture is present in the vicinity of the collecting locality. As the species occurs primarily in Afroalpine environments, climate change is likely to be affecting it, although in what way is not known.

This species has been collected from both the Bale Mountains and Simien Mountains National Parks (UNEP-WCMC and IUCN 2023) but is not known to be in ex situ conservation (BGCI 2023). Research is needed to obtain population data and to ascertain whether this grass species can persist in agricultural landscapes.