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

Bok av Martin Cheek
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 Africa's 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.