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    The Cape Floral Region is a floristic region located near the southern tip of South Africa. It is the only floristic region of the Cape Floristic Kingdom...
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    significance to the local Nama people. The Cape floristic region at Africa's southern tip is a Mediterranean climate region that is home to a significant number...
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    its natural setting in the Cape Floristic Region, and for landmarks such as Table Mountain and Cape Point. In 2014, Cape Town was named the best place in...
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    Bay coast. It was formed from the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. This area forms part of the Cape Floristic Region and as such supports a high diversity...
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    Northern Cape and the Western Cape, together making up most of the former Cape Province. The area includes the Cape Floristic Region, the smallest of the six...
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    Africa, and tropical Africa. The center of diversity is in the Cape Floristic Region. The genera Acidanthera, Anomalesia, Homoglossum, and Oenostachys...
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    Proteaceae family. About 92% of the species occurs only in the Cape Floristic Region, a narrow belt of mountainous coastal land from Clanwilliam to Grahamstown...
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    savanna grassland, semi-arid Karoo vegetation and the fynbos of the Cape Floristic Region. Famed for its national parks and big game, 297 species of mammal...
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    ventricosa is a species of plant in the family Ericaceae native to the Cape Floristic Region. The scientific name of this species is derived from the Latin word...
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    Renosterveld (category Ecosystems of the Western Cape)
    one of the major plant communities and vegetation types of the Cape Floristic Region (Cape Floral Kingdom) which is located in southwestern and southeastern...
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  • up of smaller floristic communities, and so on. Phytochoria are defined as areas possessing a large number of endemic taxa. Floristic kingdoms are characterized...
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    ISBN 978-0-37603-851-7. Manning, John (2012). Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region: 1: the core Cape flora. Pretoria: South African National Biodiversity Institute...
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  • Succulent Karoo - the arid area to the north and west of the Cape fynbos. Cape Floristic Region - Griqualand West Centre - the arid area roughly between Prieska...
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    in the Cape Floristic Region and thus has one of the highest plant diversity levels in the world. The principal vegetation type of this region is fynbos...
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    Lion's Head is a mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, between Table Mountain and Signal Hill. Lion's Head peaks at 669 metres (2,195 ft) above sea level...
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    majority of the area and plant life in the Cape Floristic Region, is located in a small region of the Western Cape and contains more than 9,000 of those species...
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    greater Cape Floristic Region". In Allsopp, N.; Colville, J.F.; Verboom, G.A. (eds.). Fynbos: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation of a Megadiverse Region, 164...
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    Cape Point (Afrikaans: Kaappunt) is a promontory at the southeast corner of the Cape Peninsula, a mountainous and scenic landform that runs north-south...
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    (Afrikaans: Seinheuwel), or Lion's Rump, is a landmark flat-topped hill located in Cape Town, next to Lion's Head and Table Mountain. The hill was also known as...
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    Aizoaceae's diversity is found in the Greater Cape Floristic Region, which is the most plant-diverse temperate region in the world. A few species are found in...
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    Du Toits Peak (category Mountains of the Western Cape)
    sandstone. Vegetation is almost exclusively montane fynbos of the Cape floristic region. The rest of the mountains are barren rocks and steep cliffs. Precipitation...
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    The California Floristic Province (CFP) is a floristic province with a Mediterranean-type climate located on the Pacific Coast of North America with a...
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  • (5) Tropical Andes (1) Europe Mediterranean Basin (14) Africa Cape Floristic Region (12) Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa (10) Eastern Afromontane...
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    unspoilt vegetation of the Cape Floristic Region (Fynbos). Despite being the smallest of the world's six floral kingdoms, the Cape Floral Kingdom, with 9000...
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    habitats and ecological communities. The peninsula lies within the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa. It is the home of some 2285 plant species and is...
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    rear end to make itself look bigger. The Cape grysbok's native habitat is the "Fynbos biome" (Cape Floristic Region), and it inhabits thick shrubland. It...
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  • climate change, specifically plants in the Pelargonium genus in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa. Williams was born and raised in Washington, D.C...
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    perennial herbs or shrubs, with its center of diversity in the Greater Cape Floristic Region (GCFR) of South Africa but some species' ranges include southern...
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    Aloe striata (category Endemic flora of the Cape Provinces)
    quite widely over the southern parts of the Cape Floristic Region, in the Eastern Cape Province and Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is found on...
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    Devil's Peak is part of the mountainous backdrop to Cape Town, South Africa. When looking at Table Mountain from the city centre, or when looking towards...
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