The Boschberg (Somerset East, Eastern Cape) - A floristic cross-roads of the southern Great Escarpment

South African Journal of Botany

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 94-104

  Clark, V R ^a   Barker, N P ^a   McMaster, C ^b   Mucina, L ^c  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b Curtin University of Technology ^*  (South Africa)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boschberg; Cape Floristic Region; Floristics; Groot Bruintjieshoogde; Phytogeography; Sneeuberg Centre of Endemism

Indexed keywords

CAPE FLORISTIC REGION; CONNECTIVITY; ENDEMISM; ESCARPMENT; FLORISTICS; NEW RECORD; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY;

EASTERN CAPE; ENGLAND; SNEEUBERG; SOMERSET; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78651512736     PISSN: 02546299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sajb.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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