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    Northern Drakensberg Highland Grassland (Gd 5) Northern Escarpment Afromontane Fynbos (Gm 24) Northern Escarpment Dolomite Grassland (Gm 22) Northern...
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    for much of that distance, soon giving way to a mountainous escarpment (Great Escarpment) that separates the coast from the high inland plateau. In some...
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    of the Cape Peninsula, open fynbos is generally treeless except in the wetter mountain ravines where patches of Afromontane forest persist. The arid interior...
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    Fynbos: Dune asteraceous fynbos Coastal scree asteraceous fynbos Ericaceous fynbos Mesic mesotrophic proteoid fynbos Wet mesotrophic proteoid fynbos Mesic...
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    Mariepskop (category Escarpments of Africa)
    the escarpment region by fragments of Sotho-speaking tribes, who once lived on the highveld. Bakwena chief Kowyn settled on the Graskop escarpment, and...
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    Protea rubropilosa (category Flora of the Northern Provinces)
    mountain summits and cliff-slopes, and the fynbos which can occur in afromontane areas of the Northern Escarpment. This plant is grown at the Kirstenbosch...
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    includes the Serengeti ecosystem, which is renowned for its wildlife. The Afromontane region extends from the Ethiopian Highlands to the Drakensberg Mountains...
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