Regions of Floristic Endemism in Southern Africa: A Review with Emphasis on Succulents

By A. E. Wyk, Gideon F. Smith. 2001

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Plectranthus: A plant for the future? (2011, background): “…the genus exhibits its highest level of diversity on the sandstone derived island substrates of southern KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and the northern parts of the Eastern Cape (EC), i.e. the Pondoland Centre of Endemism sensu Van Wyk and Smith (2001), where 29 described species of Plectranthus occur.”
Global Centers of Vascular Plant Diversity (2005, background): “Vascular epiphytes are the most speciose life-form in Andean montane forests (KESSLER 2002a, KÜPER et al. 2004, VAN DER WERFF and CONSIGLIO 2004).”
An inventory of Vhavenḓa useful plants (2018, background): “The district includes most of the Soutpansberg, a mountain range that has been recognised as a local centre of floristic endemism, with an estimated 3000 species of which about 45 species and infraspecific taxa are endemic to the centre (Van Wyk and Smith, 2001).”