Field Guide to the Flora of Grootbos Nature Reserve and the Walker Bay Region by Sean Privett & Heiner Lutzeyer

Field Guide to the Flora of Grootbos Nature Reserve and the Walker Bay Region by Sean Privett and Heiner Lutzeyer is an illustrated botanical guide to one of the richest corners of the Cape Floristic Region. It was published in softcover by the Grootbos Foundation in 2010 and runs to 296 pages, with colour illustrations and photographs throughout.

Grootbos Nature Reserve lies near Gansbaai, overlooking Walker Bay in the Western Cape. Its landscape takes in fynbos, pockets of Afrotemperate forest and ancient milkwood woodland, giving it a remarkably varied indigenous flora.

The Field Guide to the Flora of Grootbos Nature Reserve presents 410 of the 765 plant species recorded at Grootbos at the time of publication. It gives particular attention to showy flowering plants, species of conservation concern and the plants visitors are most likely to meet across the wider Walker Bay region. Each species is described and illustrated, making the book practical for identification in the field.

Field Guide to the Flora of Grootbos Nature Reserve grew out of years of recording work by Heiner Lutzeyer, a botanist resident at Grootbos, and Sean Privett. Their survey documented several species new to science and many plants of conservation importance.

This Field Guide to the Flora of Grootbos Nature Reserve is a useful regional reference for botanists, naturalists, gardeners, hikers and collectors of South African natural history books, and for anyone visiting the Overberg coast between Hermanus and Gansbaai.

Condition – Very Good

A very good reading copy and reference guide. The covers are clean and bright, and the spine is slightly loose. There are no other notable defects.