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  2. Cape Flats Sand Fynbos - Wikipedia

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    A surviving remnant of Cape Flats Sand Fynbos at Rondebosch Common. Heath (Erica spp.), cone-bush and restio specimens. Cape Flats Sand Fynbos (CFSF), previously known as Sand Plain Fynbos, is a critically endangered vegetation type that occurs only within the city of Cape Town. Less than 1% of this unique lowland fynbos vegetation is conserved ...

  3. Rondebosch Common - Wikipedia

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    Rondebosch Common is a National Monument and an important conservation area for the critically endangered Cape Flats Sand Fynbos vegetation. This type of fynbos exists only in Cape Town, and has become critically endangered due to the urban development which has covered most of the Cape Flats.

  4. Tokai Park - Wikipedia

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    These results mean that Cape Flats Sand Fynbos can be relatively easily restored and conserved within Tokai Park, and that the potential for passive restoration is high. [32] Furthermore, Tokai Park has been identified as one of the top 80 priority areas for active restoration in Cape Town, out of thousands of vegetation remnants. [ 30 ]

  5. Leucadendron levisanus - Wikipedia

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    Leucadendron levisanus, commonly known as the Cape flats conebush, is a flower-bearing shrub that belongs to the genus Leucadendron and forms part of the fynbos. The plant is native to the Western Cape, where it occurs in the Cape Flats from Vishoek to Eerste River and Mamre. The shrub grows 2 m (6 ft 7 in) tall and bears flowers in October.

  6. Cape Floristic Region - Wikipedia

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    List of vegetation types of the Cape Floristic Region: [4] [5] Atlantis Sand Fynbos – Vegetation type from north of Cape Town, in the Western Cape, South Africa; Boland Granite Fynbos – Vegetation type endemic to the Western Cape, South Africa; Cape Flats Dune Strandveld – Endangered vegetation type endemic to the coastal areas around ...

  7. Meadowridge Common - Wikipedia

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    Sparaxis bulbifera growing in Cape Flats Sand Fynbos on Meadowridge Common. Meadowridge Common is an 8-hectare (20-acre) reserve in the Meadowridge suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, which preserves a fragment of critically endangered Cape Flats Sand Fynbos vegetation. [2] The preserve contains over a hundred plant species, including 4 that are ...

  8. Fynbos - Wikipedia

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    The fynbos ecoregion is within the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome. In fields related to biogeography, fynbos is known for its exceptional degree of biodiversity [1] and endemism, [2] consisting of about 80% (8,500 fynbos) species of the Cape floral kingdom, where nearly 6,000 of them are endemic. [3]

  9. Durbanville Nature Reserve - Wikipedia

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    This small nature reserve is located on the border between two critically endangered vegetation types: Swartland Shale Renosterveld and Cape Flats Sand Fynbos. It was proclaimed in 1966 after Aristea lugens, a rare species of plant, was discovered here. The invasive alien vegetation was then cleared and the indigenous landscape was restored.

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