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Species Cards

Brithys crini pancratia

It is an indigenous insect adapted to feeding on local deciduous species, forming a natural part of the ecosystem.

Lily borer

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Agama aculeata

Agama aculeata is a widespread, common ground agama in southern Africa that helps control insects and thrives in natural and disturbed habitats.

Ground Agama

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Acontias plumbeus

Acontias plumbeus, the largest legless skink, is a fossorial species from Southern Africa that supports soil health and invertebrate balance.

Giant legless skink

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Acontias occidentalis

Acontias occidentalis is a Southern African endemic legless skink that represents a highly specialized fossorial lineage within the region. It contributes to soil ecosystem processes and reflects unique evolutionary adaptations to subterranean life.

Western burrowing skink

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Widdringtonia wallichii

The Clanwilliam cedar, an iconic conifer of the Cederberg, is critically endangered. Its assembled genome will serve as a reference for mapping short-read sequences from trees of different ages and locations, allowing us to measure genetic diversity across space and time.

Clanwilliam Cedar

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Plectranthus madagascariensis

Plectranthus species are used in traditional medicine for coughs, colds, and scabies, and their pungent foliage helps repel flies.

Thicket Coleus

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Clivia robusta

Clivia robusta is adapted to wetlands, where it helps stabilise streambanks and saturated soils. It is also used in interspecific breeding to produce vigorous hybrids.

Swamp Clivia

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Aloidendron ramossisimum

Aloidendron ramosissimum is threatened by plant theft, overgrazing, and ongoing habitat degradation.

Maiden's Quiver tree

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Plectranthus zuluensis

The Zulu spurflower is cultivated locally and internationally as a flowering ornamental plant, valued for its velvety foliage and blue to mauve blooms.

Zulu spurflower

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Plectranthus saccatus

This species is cultivated locally and internationally as a flowering ornamental. Compared with other members of the genus it has relatively large flowers and is easy to propagate.

Stoep jacaranda

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Plectranthus fruticosus

The Spurflower is grown locally and internationally as a flowering ornamental plant.

Spurflower

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Wachendorfia brachyandra

Wachendorfia brachyandra is one of only five known species worldwide that exhibits floral asymmetry in the form of enantiostyly. Studying this species will help improve understanding of pollination adaptations in fynbos plants.

Short-stamen butterfly-lily

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