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      Indigenous vascular plants of the Soutpansberg, South Africa

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          BACKGROUND: The first checklist for the Soutpansberg was published in 1946, and the second list was compiled by the author in 2006 as part of his doctoral thesis. Currently, there is a need for an updated account of the biodiversity of the Soutpansberg Centre of Endemism and Diversity for conservation planning in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, within which the Soutpansberg is the principle geomorphological feature OBJECTIVES: To present an updated list of vascular plants recorded for the Soutpansberg METHOD: The list was compiled from various sources including literature reviews, herbarium specimens, herbarium databases and personal observations RESULTS: This article presents the most geographically accurate and taxonomically updated list of the indigenous vascular flora of the Soutpansberg, the northernmost mountain range of South Africa. Altogether 2443 taxa are recorded belonging to 922 genera in 187 families and 64 orders CONCLUSION: The list presented in this article confirms the status of the Soutpansberg as a centre of floristic diversity in southern Africa. Notable is the higher-order diversity of the flora. It is likely that both future surveys and reviews of herbarium collections will add new taxa to the current total

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                Role: ND
                Journal
                babc
                Bothalia - African Biodiversity & Conservation
                Bothalia (Online)
                South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) (Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa )
                0006-8241
                2311-9284
                2019
                : 49
                : 1
                : 1-5
                Affiliations
                [01] Thohoyandou orgnameUniversity of Venda orgdiv1Department of Zoology South Africa
                Article
                S0006-82412019000100019
                10.4102/abc.v49i1.2402
                b51332a4-8d7a-4031-96a3-b633d29b840b

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 13 March 2019
                : 24 July 2018
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 26, Pages: 5
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                SciELO South Africa

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                Original Research

                Centre of floristic diversity,Centre of Endemism,biosphere reserve,biodiversity,vegetation,flora,floristic diversity

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