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.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.