Plants of Kupe, Mwanenguba and the Bakossi Mountains, Cameroon: a conservation checklist
A Conservation Checklist
9781842460740
Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Plants of Kupe, Mwanenguba and the Bakossi Mountains, Cameroon: a conservation checklist
A Conservation Checklist
With 2,412 species described, of which 232 are assessed as globally threatened and 82 as strictly endemic, from an area of 2,390 square kilometers, this book records what now appears to be Tropical Africa’s richest documented centre of diversity. Yet, in 1993, only 123 species were listed from Mount Kupe!
Detailed chapters are included on Red Data plant species, vegetation, the physocal environment, ethnobotany and medicinal plants, sacred groves, the vertebrate fauna, invasive alien and weedy plants, the protected areas system, together with chapters on macrofungi and bryophytes.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
New Names
Foreword
Introductory Chapters
The Checklist Area
The Evolution of this Checklist
The R.B.G., Kew Western Cameroon Specimen Database
Statistical Summary
The Physical Environment
Vegetation
Endemic Vascular Plant Taxa
Invasive, Alien and Weedy Plants
Phytogeography and Refugia
Ethnobotany
Medicinal Plant Systematics and Value in Bakossi
Bryophytes and Water Capture
Notes on the Macrofungi
The Vertebrate Fauna
The Protected Areas System
Sacred Groves
Red Data Taxa of Kupe, Mwanenguba and Bakossi Mts
Taxon Red Data Treatments (incl. colour plates 1 to 16)
Read This First! Explanatory Notes for the Checklist
Plant References and Bibliography
Vascular Plant Checklist
Dicotyledonae
Monocotyledonae
Gymnospermae
Pteridophyta
Index to Vascular Plant Checklist
Preface
Acknowledgements
New Names
Foreword
Introductory Chapters
The Checklist Area
The Evolution of this Checklist
The R.B.G., Kew Western Cameroon Specimen Database
Statistical Summary
The Physical Environment
Vegetation
Endemic Vascular Plant Taxa
Invasive, Alien and Weedy Plants
Phytogeography and Refugia
Ethnobotany
Medicinal Plant Systematics and Value in Bakossi
Bryophytes and Water Capture
Notes on the Macrofungi
The Vertebrate Fauna
The Protected Areas System
Sacred Groves
Red Data Taxa of Kupe, Mwanenguba and Bakossi Mts
Taxon Red Data Treatments (incl. colour plates 1 to 16)
Read This First! Explanatory Notes for the Checklist
Plant References and Bibliography
Vascular Plant Checklist
Dicotyledonae
Monocotyledonae
Gymnospermae
Pteridophyta
Index to Vascular Plant Checklist