Question: give three reasons why the fynbos biome is so important to south africa and the world

title: Fynbos
text: Of the world 's six floral kingdoms , this is the smallest and richest per unit of area . The Holarctic kingdom , in contrast , incorporates the whole of the Northern Hemisphere north of the tropics . The diversity of fynbos plants is extremely high , with over 9000 species of plants occurring in the area , around 6200 of which are endemic , i.e. growing nowhere else in the world . South Africa 's Western Cape has a level of botanic diversity that exceeds that of the richest tropical rainforest in South America , including the Amazon . Of the Ericas , over 600 occur in the fynbos kingdom , while only two or three dozen have been described in the rest of the world . This is in an area of 46,000 km -- by comparison , the Netherlands , with an area of 33,000 km , has 1400 species , none of them endemic . Table Mountain in Cape Town supports 2200 species , more than the entire United Kingdom . Thus , although the fynbos covers only 6 % of the area of southern Africa , it has half the species on the subcontinent -- and in fact has almost 1 in 5 of all African plant species so far described . 

Answer: answer: Of the world 's six floral kingdoms, Fynbos is the smallest and richest per unit of area. The diversity of fynbos plants is extremely high, with over 9000 species of plants occurring in the area, around 6200 of which are endemic, i.e. growing nowhere else in the world. South Africa's Western Cape has a level of botanic diversity that exceeds that of the richest tropical rainforest in South America, including the Amazon. Of the Ericas, over 600 occur in the fynbos kingdom, while only two or three dozen have been described in the rest of the world.