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Environment, vegetation and phytogeography of the high-altitude bogs of Lesotho

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  1. Institute for environmental sciences, University of the O.F.S., Bloemfontein, South Africa

    E. M. van Zinderen Bakker

  2. Botanical Research Institute, private bag X101, Pretoria

    M. J. A. Werger

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from 1.3.1974: Division of Geobotany, University of Nijmegen Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Nomenclature of species is given in the tables.

The authors wish to thank Dr. J. A. Coetzee for valuable assistance with the field work, and the staff of the Botanical Research Institute at Pretoria for the identification of the plant material. The authors are indebted to Dr. H. Ochi and Dr. B. O. van Zanten for naming the Bryophyta.

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van Zinderen Bakker, E.M., Werger, M.J.A. Environment, vegetation and phytogeography of the high-altitude bogs of Lesotho. Plant Ecol 29, 37–49 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02390894

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