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 asglobally threatened and 82 asstrictly endemic, from an areaof 2390 km2, this bookdocuments what nowappears to be Tropical Africa's richest centre of diversity.Chapters are included on Red Data plant species (with16 pages of colour), vegetation, the physicalenvironment, ethnobotany and medicinal plants, sacredgroves, the vertebrate fauna, invasive, alien and weedyplants, 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 is part of the Drylands Africa Team in the Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Jean-Michel Onana is a botanist based at the IRAD-National Herbarium of Cameroon.