NEW LOCALITIES AND INTENSIVE BOTANISING

摘要

Year by year in South Africa new plant species are being discovered. The late discovery is sometimes due to plants growing in isolated areas over a limited area and at times known species are split into two or more look-alikes. Some plants are good atcamouflage and escape discovery for this reason. After the discovery of Conophytum hammeri in a remote and seldom visited locality it was rediscovered in an area frequently visited by botanists and as further localities became known it was clear that many botanists had walked right over the plants.