{"paper_id":"1aeef48e-ec40-4918-b734-33b0dd3614da","body_text":"Preprint\nARPHA Preprints\nhttps://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e176100 (28 Oct 2025)\nhttps://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e176100 (28 Oct 2025)\nPublished in: Nature Conservation https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.63.175466\nOther versions:\n- Preprint InfoPreprint Info\n- CiteCite\n- MetricsMetrics\n- CommentComment\n- RelatedRelated\n- CitedCited\nARPHA Preprints\ndoi:\n10.3897/arphapreprints.e176100\nFirst posted\n28 Oct 2025\nAuthors\nMichael Pirie\n- Corresponding author\nUniversity of Bergen, Bergen, Norway\nSouth African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Pretoria, South Africa\nFossil Plants, Gwynedd, United Kingdom\nNelson Mandela University, George, South Africa\nWestonbirt, the National Arboretum, Forestry England, Tetbury, United Kingdom\nSouth African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Africa\nRoyal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom\nUniversity of A Coruna, A Coruña, Spain\nRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom\nSoftware Engineer, Cape Town, South Africa\nStellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa\nSenckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, Germany\nFreelance botanist, Cape Town, South Africa\nSouth African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Pretoria, South Africa\nUniversity of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa\nUniversity of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa\nUniversity of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany\nInstitute of Biosciences and BioResources, National Research Council, Palermo, Italy\nRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, United Kingdom\nOn the Edge, London, United Kingdom\nImperial College London, London, United Kingdom\nBotanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmond, United Kingdom\nSouth African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Africa\nRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom\nHBLFA für Gartenbau Schönbrunn und Österreichische Bundesgärten, Vienna, Austria\nUniversity of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa\nSouth African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa\nUniversity of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands\nSouth African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Africa\nConflict of interest\nThe authors have declared that no competing interests exist.\nThis is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.","source_license":"CC-BY-4.0","license_restricted":false}