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OverviewWith 2412 species described, of which 232 are assessed as globally threatened and 82 as strictly endemic, from an area of 2390 km2, this book documents what now appears to be Tropical Africa’s richest centre of diversity. Chapters are included on Red Data plant species (with 16 pages of colour), vegetation, the physical environment, ethnobotany and medicinal plants, sacred groves, the vertebrate fauna, invasive, alien and weedy plants, and the protected areas system. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Martin Cheek , Benedict. John. Pollard , Iain Darbyshire , Jean-Michel OnanaPublisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Imprint: Kew Publishing Dimensions: Width: 21.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 29.70cm Weight: 0.027kg ISBN: 9781842460740ISBN 10: 1842460749 Pages: 512 Publication Date: 01 January 2004 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable ![]() The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationMartin Cheek is a botanist in the Wet Tropics of Africa Team, based at the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Iain Darbyshire works in the department of accelerated taxonomy at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, specializing in Acanthaceae systematics and African plant diversity and conservation. Jean-Michel Onana is a botanist based at the IRAD-National Herbarium of Cameroon. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |