Plants of Mount Kupe, Mwanenguba and the Bakossi Mountains, Cameroon, The: a conservation checklist

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With 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 Africas 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.

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Martin 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.