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	Floristic province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Systems of floristic provinces have both significant similarities and differences with zoogeographic provinces, which follow the composition of mammal families, and with biogeographical provinces or terrestrial ecoregions, which take into account both plant and animal species.
		Botanist Ronald Good identified six floristic kingdoms (boreal, Neotropical, Paleotropical, South African, Australian, and Antarctic), the largest natural units he determined for flowering plants.
		The Paleotropical kingdom is divided into three subkingdoms, which are each subdivided into floristic provinces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Floristic_province (260 words)

	Fynbos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It forms part of the Cape floral kingdom, where it accounts for half of the surface area and 80% of the plant varieties.
		Of the world's six floral kingdoms, this is the smallest and richest per area unit.
		Contrast it in size with the Holarctic kingdom, which incorporates the whole of the northern hemisphere apart from the tropical regions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fynbos (660 words)

	South African floral kingdom surrounds eco-resort
		Floral kingdoms generally spread across continental land masses such as North America or Australia.
		More amazing is that it is also by far the most biologically diverse floral kingdom, boasting more than three times as many unique species as its closest competitor, the South American rain forest.
		Yet 70 percent of the Cape Floral Kingdom's fynbos are plants found naturally nowhere else on earth.
	www.post-gazette.com /travel/20031214grootbosgo1214trp4.asp (1435 words)

	Geography Explained
		Cape Floral Kingdom: This is a biogeographical term: That part of the subcontinent with exceptionally high (plant) species richness and endemism.
		The Cape Floral Kingdom and the Cape Floral Region are only similar because Fynbos has by far the majority of the regions endemics and species.
		If it were not for this fact, they could have been quite different: the distinction is Cape Floral Kingdom is defined on a global scale by species distribution patterns, whereas the latter is defined locally based on species distribution patterns.
	protea.worldonline.co.za /geography.htm (642 words)

	Conophytum - Floral scent
		Floral scent has often been used in chemotaxonomic studies, or in studies related with the pollination of species.
		The floral scent compounds in moth-pollinated taxa are often chemically similar even if species belong to different taxonomical groups (Knudsen and Tollsten 1993).
		This is supported by the observations of Liede and Hammer (1990), that late afternoon-flowering occurrs in the sections Cataphracta and Saxetana, which are mainly distributed northern of the Cape Floral Kingdom.
	www.uni-bayreuth.de /departments/planta2/wgl/databases/scent/Cono_scent.htm (756 words)

	Floristic regions
		In plant geography, the world is divided into 6 floral kingdoms, and each of these kingdoms is subdivided into floristic provinces, regions, etc., up to the floral district, which is the smallest unit.
		Each floral kingdom includes a number of plant families that are unique for that kingdom, or that have their centre there.
		This is the largest floral kingdom; Holarctis encompasses roughly all of the northern hemisphere, north of the tropic of Cancer.
	www.ecocam.com /nature/biomes.html (1457 words)

	Proteaceae Floral Crops: Cultivar Development and Underexploited Uses
		The floral biology of proteas is protandrous, with anthesis occurring prior to the stigma becoming receptive; a mechanism to help insure cross pollination.
		Selected Proteaceae floral crops were analyzed for their potential profitability, on a hypothetical 4 ha farm, and determined to be profitable, given adequate farm management and marketing.
		Floral display life is about 7 to 13 days (Dennis 1991) and browning of the bracts can be a problem.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/proceedings1999/v4-410.html (10974 words)

	Fynbos Biome
		The Cape Floral Kingdom is the smallest of the six Floral Kingdoms in the world, and is the only one contained in its entirety within a single country.
		Furthermore, the Cape Floral Kingdom traditionally does not include the Fynbos and Renosterveld vegetation outliers to the north and east.
		However, species endemic to the Cape Floral Kingdom comprise about one-third of Renosterveld plant species, and many of these belong to families which are not considered to be of "Cape affinity" (i.e.
	www.plantzafrica.com /vegetation/fynbos.htm (2547 words)

	Knysna Elephant Park, Knysna, Plettenberg Bay, Garden Route, adventure safari South Africa
		The inland boundaries are the Cape Fold Mountains: the Witteberg, Swartberg and Baviaansberg along the Indian Ocean Seaboard, and the Hex River Mountains, Cedarberg and Koue Bokkeveld on the Atlantic Ocean Seaboard.
		This is not only smallest of the world’s six floral kingdoms - it is also the only floral kingdom that is entirely contained within the borders of one country.
		In the Cape Floral Kingdom, these communities include the fynbos, the strandveld (or fynbos/thicket mosaic) and the renosterveld.
	www.knysnaelephantpark.co.za /capefloralkingdom.htm (926 words)

	CSIR conservation plan for the Cape an international first (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The CSIR has recently completed a major study on the conservation priorities in the Cape Floral Kingdom (CFK), which formed part of the development of a strategic plan by the CSIR, the University of Cape Town and several other organisations.
		Existing conservation areas in the Cape Floral Kingdom are heavily skewed towards mountainous areas, leaving the regions globally unique but embattled lowland habitats dangerously vulnerable to human development.
		One of the chief objectives of the CAPE project was to identify and implement priorities for conservation in the Cape Floral Kingdom on the basis of both biodiversity and threats.
	www.csir.co.za /plsql/ptl0002/PTL0002_PGE038_ARTICLE?ARTICLE_NO=4770135 (511 words)

	South Africa Immigration - Cape Floral Kingdom
		Of the six plant kingdoms of the world, one of these (the Cape Fynbos) is found only in South Africa.
		This stretches through roughly seven different areas in the Western and Eastern Cape and is one of only six floral kingdoms in the world.
		Astonishingly, 90% of the plant species recorded in the Cape floral kingdom are endemic and found nowhere else on the planet.
	www.insidesa.com /south-africa-immigration/cape-floral-kingdom.html (161 words)

	Cape Flora on World Heritage List - SouthAfrica.info
		The Cape Floral Region "represents less than 0.5% of the area of Africa, but is home to nearly 20% of the continent's flora," Unesco said in a statement.
		Of the 9 600 species of vascular plants (plants with vessels for bearing sap) found in the Cape floral kingdom, about 70% are endemic, ie occur nowhere else on earth.
		And when it comes to fauna, the kingdom boasts 11 000 marine animal species, 3 500 of which are endemic, and 560 vertebrate species, including 142 reptile species of which 27 are endemic.
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/fauna_flora/capefloralregion.htm (625 words)

	Fynbos
		Fynbos makes up four-fifths of the Cape Floral Kingdom, which covers an area of less than 90 000 square kilometres (the size of Malawi or Portugal) and hosts 8 600 plant species.
		So special is the Cape Floral Kingdom that it has been designated as one of the earth's six plant kingdoms, alongside for instance, the Boreal Forest Kingdom.
		It is the smallest Floral Kingdom in the world and in quite a league of its own.
	www.encounter.co.za /article/38.html (745 words)

	South Africa / UNESCO World Heritage Site: Cape Floral Region Protected Areas
		The Cape Floral Region forms a centre of active speciation where interesting patterns of endemism and adaptive radiation are found in the flora.
		The Cape Floral Kingdom / Table Mountain National Park: At the south-western tip of Africa, the Table Mountain National Park encompasses the incredibly scenic Peninsula mountain chain stretching from Signal Hill in the north to Cape Point in the south, a distance of approximately 60 km.
		The narrow portion of land with its many beautiful valleys, bays and beaches is circled by the waters of the Atlantic Ocean in the west and the warmer waters of False Bay in the east.
	www.sa-venues.com /unesco-site-cape-floral-kingdom.htm (637 words)

	Flora of the Western Cape
		The Cape Floral Kingdom or Floristic Region is the smallest of the six such natural areas in the world, and is the only one contained within the borders of a single country.
		The Cape Floral Kingdom thus occupies virtually the entire Western Cape Province, a small area in the western part of the Eastern Cape Province, and some very tiny sections of the Northern Cape Province adjacent to the Western Cape.
		The Cape Floral Kingdom and the floristic biomes which it encompasses are a natural treasure for the people of South Africa, and it is devoutly to be hoped that more areas will be set aside so that many of these endangered species will not be forever lost.
	www.calflora.net /southafrica/capeflora.html (2789 words)

	Fynbos - the unique South African floral kingdom
		The Cape Floral Kingdom is one of the world’s most precious natural assets.
		It is the smallest Floral Kingdom in the world and is in a league of its own.
		The Cape Floral Kingdom contains 526 of the world's 740 erica species, 96 out of the world's 160 gladiolus species and 69 proteas out of 112 in the world.
	www.clifflodge.co.za /cape-floral-kingdom.htm (379 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| South Africa's floral riches at risk
		There are six floral kingdoms on Earth - the Antarctic, Australasian, Boreal, Neotropic, Palaeotropic, and the Cape.
		The Cape floral kingdom is botanically more diverse than the richest tropical rainforest.
		The fynbos constitutes 80% of the Cape floral kingdom.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/1606324.stm (558 words)

	Enviro Facts guide to Fynbos
		Only five other floral kingdoms are recognised, and these cover huge areas such as the whole of Australia and most of the northern hemisphere.
		The Cape Floral Kingdom is both the smallest and the richest floral kingdom, with the highest known concentration of plant species: 1 300 per 10 000 km2!
		Conservation of the Cape Floral Kingdom, with its distinctive fynbos vegetation, is a national conservation priority demanding urgent action.
	www.botany.uwc.ac.za /envfacts/fynbos (1797 words)

	Women24
		A floral kingdom is an area that is characterised by the distinct groups of plants that are not found in other areas.
		The Cape Kingdom is also the only floral kingdom that is found entirely within the borders of one country, which makes SA and the Cape Floral Kingdom unique.
		Lets hope then that the government decides that protecting one of the world's six floral kingdoms for the prosperity of future generations is more important that buying a submarine.
	www.women24.com /W24/Display/w24Article/0,,1-2-4_161,00.html (805 words)

	Cape Floral Kingdom
		The smallest of the six floral kingdoms, the Cape Floral Kingdom is a global biodiversity asset of great importance.
		At least 70% of the 9 600 plant species of the Cape Floral Kingdom are found nowhere else on Earth.
		It is this combination of species richness and threat that makes the Cape Floral Kingdom one of the most important global 'hotspots' of biodiversity.
	www.cybertracker.org /CapeFloral.html (632 words)

	Cape Nature - Far and Wild Safaris
		is regarded as a "Kingdom"; The plants of the south-western and southern
		kingdom, ranked in importance with the five other floral kingdoms of the
		kingdoms, defined by being a largely endemic flora of a specific biome.
	www.africasafari.co.za /Capetown/Cape_Nature.htm (397 words)

	farm 215 \| fynbos \| Cape Flora \| Protea \| fynbos biome
		The Cape Floral Kingdom is one of the earth's six plant kingdoms.
		Though the Cape Floral Kingdom is the smallest of them all (more or less the size of Portugal compared to the Boreal Plant Kingdom that occupies more than 40% of the world's land surface), it has the richest variety of species of all Kingdoms.
		The multitude, variety and beauty of all these fynbos species, combined with the enormous sense of tranquility and space, the splendid views that can be enjoyed from the slopes and the abundance of water, make a stay in farm 215 a special experience.
	www.farm215.co.za /fynbos.html (446 words)

	afrol News - South Africa's Cape Floral Region a "biologic sensation"
		The region, also known as the "Cape Floral Kingdom", has featured among the main tourism attractions of the much visited Cape region and forms part of the "Garden Route", which is heavily marketed by Cape tourism authorities.
		The Cape Floral Region was considered of "outstanding universal value for representing ongoing ecological and biological processes associated with the evolution of the unique Fynbos biome." These processes are represented generally within the Cape Floral Region and captured in the eight protected areas.
		The species density in the Cape Floral Region is also known to be amongst the highest in the world.
	www.afrol.com /articles/13578 (722 words)

	South Africa : Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Cape Floral Kingdom -- One of six floral kingdoms in the world, the Cape Floral Kingdom covers an area of some 69,930 sq.
		The delicate inhabitants of the Cape Floral Kingdom are referred to as fynbos (literally, "fine bush," pronounced "feign-borse") -- an evergreen vegetation characterized by the ability to thrive in nutrient-poor soil and survive the Cape's windy, baking summers and cold winters.
		Thought to be the oldest floral kingdom in the world, and certainly the most diverse, three-quarters of fynbos species are found nowhere else -- and many grow only in one valley.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=239&catID=0239020250 (504 words)

	Facts about fynbos
		The Cape Province is home to the sixth floral kingdom, out of the world's 6 kingdoms.
		This floral kingdom is the only one present in one country.
		The Cape floral kingdom hosts about 8600 species, of which 5800 are endemic (specific only to this area).
	www.wavescape.co.za /fact_file.htm (294 words)

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		Three of South Africa's 5 biomes or natural regions are represented in the Cape Floral Kingdom.
		Patches of the succulent karoo biome (the Little Karoo) and the forest biome (the Knysna forests) occur, but the fynbos biome is confined to the south and south-western Cape.
		Of the 6 recognized floral kingdoms of the world the Cape Floral Kingdom, also known as the fynbos or macchia biome, is both the smallest and by far the richest in different plant species: 1,200 species per square 10,000 km!
	www.gansbaai.net /shark/gansbaai.nsf/823739abf5cd896642256f9c0040b604/4f446490a317a68f42256fa4003c62d9?OpenDocument (547 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Strategic planning for the Cape Floral Kingdom will be coordinated by NPB, in collaboration with provincial and local authorities in the Western Cape Province, qualified academic institutions, such as the University of Cape Town, and parastatal institutions such as Cape Nature Conservation.Block 2: Project Rationale 5.
		The Cape Floral Kingdom is recognized as globally important for plant species richness and extraordinary endemism and is one of the 200 Global Ecoregions identified by WWF.
		This target figure was derived a thorough assessment, by the large and very capable NGO network in the Cape Floral Kingdom, of the volume of additional funds that they can effectively utilize for conservation purposes.
	www.gefweb.org /WPROGRAM/nov97/capebio1.doc (9431 words)

	Oceans Africa - THE CAPE FLORAL KINGDOM - Info and pictures of Cape flora
		The Cape Floral Kingdom, centred around the South Western and Southern Cape, is the smallest but most diverse of the earth's six plant kingdoms.
		Fynbos makes up 4/5ths of the Cape Floral Kingdom with another four component vegetation types being Renosterveld, Succulent Karoo, Subtropical Thicket and Afromontane Forest.
		This is the most endangered vegetation type of the Cape Floral Kingdom due mainly to replacement by farming.
	www.oceansafrica.com /floralkingdom.htm (599 words)

	Planet Ark : South Africa's Badlands Get Touch of Green
		Spanning 34,750 square miles - about the size of Portugal - it is the richest of the planet's six floral kingdoms and, at 1/1000th the size of the northern hemisphere's Boreal Kingdom, is the smallest.
		It is also the only floral kingdom found entirely in one country, and is home to 9,600 plant species, of which 70 percent are found nowhere else in the world.
		Sandwith said about 11 percent of the floral kingdom is formally conserved, but large tracks of farmland make the project's task tricky.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/23856/story.htm (961 words)

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