Sixty-seven species newly recorded for the flora of Angola: recent findings from vegetation surveys and herbarium collections

By

Lautenschläger, Thea
Göhre, Anne
Ditsch, Barbara
Baumgärtel, Christin
Monizi, Mawunu
Mandombe, José Lau
Lehnert, Marcus 1975-
Jongkind, Carel Christiaan Hugo
Persoon, Hans J.G.M.
Cheek, Martin
Monro, Alexandre
Goyder, David J.
Darbyshire, Iain
Paton, Alan
Lages, Fernanda
Wells, Tom
Jürgens, Norbert
Finckh, Manfred
Meller, Paulina

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2022-11-2

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

18

Series / Issue

Issue: 6

Pages

1203--1230

Subjects

Alien species , disjunct populations , Plant Diversity , tropical Africa

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/18.6.1203

 

Abstract

Angola is a tropical country with many biogeographical units and, therefore, has a high floristic diversity. Although an increasing number of floristic studies has been carried out in Angola in recent years, the country is still considered to be underinvestigated as many species being collected were previously unknown there. Several scientific groups working in different parts of Angola contributed to this paper their data from biodiversity assessments. With this we can add 67 species newly recorded for Angola, including two new generic records and five alien species, to the almost 7,300 vascular plant taxa known so far for Angola. Most of the new records for Angola are also present in different neighbouring countries, but they are little known, and their IUCN threat status has not been assessed yet. However, ongoing fieldwork and exploration are needed to complete the floristic knowledge of the understudied country.