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For the purposes of this category, "Africa" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), namely as one of the nine "botanical continents". It includes the following regions: Category:Flora of North Africa. Category:Flora of Macaronesia. Category:Flora of West Tropical Africa.
Natural history of Africa. A composite satellite image of Africa. Africa map of Köppen climate classification. The natural history of Africa encompasses some of the well known megafauna of that continent . Natural history is the study and description of organisms and natural objects, especially their origins, evolution, and interrelationships.
The Flora of Tropical East Africa, a project of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is the largest regional tropical Flora ever compiled. The species covered include 3-4% of the world's known plant species. When the project began in 1948, botanists thought they would be finished in fifteen years. Between 2008 and 2012 (before the project ended), 114 ...
Zannichellia aschersoniana. Zanthoxylum mezoneurispinosum. Categories: Flora of Africa by conservation status. Endangered biota of Africa. Endangered plants.
Fynbos ( / ˈfeɪnbɒs /; Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈfɛinbos] lit. 'fine plants') is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. This area is predominantly coastal and mountainous, with a Mediterranean climate and rainy winters. The fynbos ecoregion is ...
[1] [2] The Congolian forests cover southeastern Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, the northern and central Democratic Republic of the Congo, and portions of southern and central Africa. The Congolian rainforest is home to a large number of flora and fauna, including more than 10,000 species of plants and over 10,000 species of animals.
Gazania / ɡ ə ˈ z eɪ n i ə / [3] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Southern Africa. [4] [5] [1] [6] They produce large, daisy-like composite flowerheads in brilliant shades of yellow and orange, over a long period in summer. [7] They are often planted as drought-tolerant groundcover.
Category. : Critically endangered flora of Africa. Wikispecies has information related to IUCN Critically endangered species. Critically endangered flora of Africa. Flora−plant species listed by the IUCN Red List and/or NatureServe as critically endangered/imperiled within Africa. IUCN Red List Critically endangered category .