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Vegetation of South Africa. What do we mean by vegetation? At its simplest, vegetation can be described as the group of plants forming the plant cover of a geographic area. As humans, we tend to classify things, and so vegetation has been classified too.
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Listing of the diverse vegetation types of South Africa that have been sampled, classified, described, and mapped by the SANBI VEGMAP project. Vegetation types of Lesotho and Eswatini are included in the project.
Learn about the VEGMAP Project, a collaborative effort to classify, map and sample the diverse vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Explore the National Vegetation Map, the National Vegetation Database and how to contribute to the project.
Rutherford and Westfall (1994) map seven biomes of South Africa: Savanna, Thicket, Grassland, Forest, Fynbos, Nama Karoo, Succulent Karoo and Desert. See Low and Rebelo (1996) for more information. The description here comes from their web site below [with some editorial changes].
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The Savanna Biome is the largest Biome in southern Africa, occupying 46% of its area, and over one-third the area of South Africa. It is well developed over the lowveld and Kalahari region of South Africa and is also the dominant vegetation in Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Nov 21, 2022 · When thinking of South Africa, bushveld is perhaps one of the most archetypal vegetation types, pictured by people thinking of the country’s Lowveld and alongside big game animals in the world famous Kruger National Park.
This website celebrates the plants of southern Africa. Each week we bring you two new Plants of the Week and the Information Library contains hundreds of articles about southern Africa plants and related topics.
