Abstract
Mount Cameroon probably has Africa's greatest concentration of saprophytic flowering plants: twelve species in seven or eight genera and four families. It is the only known site in Africa for Oxygyne and the type locality of two of the three described species of Afrothismia (Burmanniaceae) are at Mount Cameroon, one being strictly endemic to the mountain. This paper reviews all that is known of these plants on Mount Cameroon: geography, phenology and taxonomy. It also assesses these species as indicators of refugia: some do not seem useful, others, such as Afrothismia and Oxygyne, do
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Cheek, M., & Ndam, N. (1996). Saprophytic flowering plants of Mount Cameroon. In The Biodiversity of African Plants (pp. 612–617). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0285-5_74
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