"rare orchid [name, please !] has been [re-]discovered growing on the Roodekrans-Paardekraal ridge flanking the Walter Sisulu Botanical Garden inJohannesburg...
Its recent discovery makes it the latest salvo in a battle between conservationists, developers and the Gauteng Department of Agriculture,Conservation and Environment to halt the remaining development on theecologically sensitive ridge.
The orchid subspecies, last seen in Gauteng in 1956, is the only known population...... endemic to SA, is on land earmarked to be developed as part of the Sugarbush housing estate development."
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