Cape Town - An important co-operation agreement to protect Cape flora was recently signed between the national Minister for Environment Affairs, his provincial counterpart and the Forestry and Water ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 103, No. 7, SPECIAL ISSUE: The Evolutionary Importance of Polyploidy (July 2016), pp. 1336-1347 (12 pages) PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Whole-genome duplication (WGD) in ...

South Africa’s fynbos stole the global spotlight at Chelsea Flower Show, and you’ll soon be able to see the gold-winning display up close. CapeTalk's Pippa Hudson speaks to Jacky Goliath, who was at ...

Thamnochortus (ca. 32 species) is an ecologically diverse genus of Restionaceae. Restionaceae comprise a major component of the southern African Cape flora, wherein eco-diversification might have been ...

Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel has gazetted the protection of the “Cape Flora” name and logo, following an application by Cape Flora SA to this effect. Cape Flora SA is a ...

A new conservation model that will secure 270 000 hectares of globally significant conservation land in the Western Cape, and put some R85 million into an area of extreme poverty and unemployment, has ...

Hardly any other place worldwide boosts such a hyperdiverse flora as is to be found on the southwestern tip of Africa. The flora is moreover quite unique with almost 70 % of the native species being ...

Tourists visiting the Garden Route in the southern Cape often start looking for the gardens only to find there aren’t any. “We try to tell people the whole area is a garden,” says botanist Yvette van ...

Johannesburg — ONE of the earliest known sketches of Cape flora was made in 1700 by an unnamed artist. Then, between 1772 and 1775, botanist Francis Masson collected a wide variety of indigenous ...

Species richness is not the same as evolutionary richness. So which is the better measure for setting conservation priorities? The flora of the Cape of South Africa provides a test for that pressing ...

The Cape province of South Africa is considered a continental ' hotspot' with a rich diversity of species of flora. In the July 12 Nature, Richardson et al., from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Richmond ...