Open AccessNew records of flowering plants and ferns from the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park
Author(s) -
N. van Rooyen,
H. Bezuidenhout
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
koedoe
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 2071-0771
pISSN - 0075-6458
DOI - 10.4102/koedoe.v40i2.276
Subject(s) - national park , plant species , geography , check list , ecology , biology , archaeology , library science , computer science
A supplementary list of 101 new records of plant species, as well as an updated alphabetical check list comprising a total of 489 plant species, were compiled for the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. The area covers approximately 9 593 km2. These species rep- resent 214 genera and 55 families. The Pteridophyta is represented by two species (0.4 of the total number of species), the Monocotyledonae by 116 species (23.7 ) and the Dicotyledonae by 371 species (75.9 )