<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (April 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (April 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Fynbos (/ ˈfeɪnbɒs /; Afrikaans pronunciation: (ˈfɛi̯nbos) meaning fine - leaved plants) is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa . This area is predominantly winter rainfall coastal and mountainous areas with a Mediterranean climate . The fynbos ecoregion is within the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome . In fields related to biogeography, fynbos is known for its exceptional degree of biodiversity and endemism, consisting about 80% (8,500 fynbos) species of the Cape floral kingdom where nearly 6,000 of them are endemic . This land has faced severe threats and still does, but due to the many economic uses conservation efforts are being made to help restore it . </P> <P> The word fynbos is often confusingly said to mean "fine bush" in Afrikaans, as "bos" means "bush". Typical fynbos foliage is ericoid rather than fine . The term, in its pre-Afrikaans, Dutch form, fynbosch, was recorded by Noble as being in casual use in the late 19th century . In the early 20th century, John Bews referred to: "South - Western or Cape Region of Macchia or Fynbosch". He said: "In this well - known region where the rain occurs in winter and the summers are more or less dry, the dominant vegetation is of a sclerophyllous type and there is little or no natural grassland, though there are many grasses ..." He also refers to a high degree of endemism in the grasses in that region . Elsewhere he speaks of the term as "...applied by the inhabitants of the Cape to any sort of small woodland growth that does not include timber trees"; in the current vernacular, this still is the effective sense of the word . However, in the technical, ecological sense, the constraints are more demanding . In the latter half of the 20th century, "fynbos" gained currency as the term for the "distinctive vegetation of the southwestern Cape". </P>

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