One of the major failings of the Protea Atlas Project is that we did not collect lots of herbarium material to allow taxonomists to do their job. We had planned to do this, but the final two years of the project were scrapped. This means that there is a large backlog of queries that need to be solved and herbarium material collected. If you can help, please look at the web pages and visit these sites.

Ls lineare calocephalum and Pa spathulatus ‘gamkaensis’ are two taxa that still require taxonomical work as well.

Leucospermum lineare calocephalum is an old name, but the locality was lost. This was discovered while the Protea Atlas Project was underway, but not by atlassers, in the Franschhoek Valley. However, we have mapped this subspecies and await its taxonomical appraisal.

Paranomus spathulatus ‘gamkaensis’ was discovered before the Protea Atlas Project began in the Gamka Nature Reserve. It is similar to Pa spathulatus, but is clearly a new species. However, there is a population of Pa spathulatus on the Langeberg at Wilber Smith’s farm that looks like gamkaensis, and so it has not yet been assessed. However, we have lots of locality data on this species and look forward to its being described. However, we need more herbarium material from the form on the Langeberg to solve the problem.