Researchers working on the plant diversity of the Great Winterberg-Amathole mountains, South Africa, have rediscovered a plant species last seen sometime before 1862. So far, only six individuals ...

African initiative is sequencing 105,000 endemic species cutting across plants, animals, fungi, protozoa and other eukaryotes ...

The Western Cape Province of South Africa holds the richest biodiversity in all of botany. Three-quarters of its 8,600 plant species are endemic, flourishing upon a mere 0.4 percent of earth -- a ...

Donovan Kirkwood carries out a field survey of plants in the Western Cape of South Africa. Credit Rupert Koopman Lire en français I am curator of the Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden ...

Researchers working on the African flowering plant genus Macowania -- mostly endemic to the Drakensberg of South Africa and Lesotho, and a relative of the sunflower -- have shown that one of its ...

A recent study published in the open-access journal African Invertebrates provides insights into the life history and behavior of the endemic Cape Autumn widow butterfly (Dira clytus), a species ...

N ear the southern tip of South Africa, Grootbos Private Nature Reserve protects 8,600 acres of “fynbos,” a carpet of endemic plants and flowers so multifarious that the UNESCO World Heritage ...

Illegal harvesting to supply the international horticultural market threatens some of South Africa’s endemic succulent species. The plants – sought for their beauty, rarity and often whimsical shapes ...

Kanna is an endemic South African succulent. It is sparsely distributed in semi-arid areas and used for conditions relating to stress, depression, pain and anxiety.