Protea Atlas Newsletters (54 publications)

Tony Rebelo (1988 - 2002)

Protea Atlas news since the inception of the project.  Indexes to the Protea Atlas Newsletters (PAN) are available here.

For more information on the below publications and availablity, please contact the Protea Atlas Office.

Ericas of the Cape Peninsula

Ted and Inge Oliver (2000)

An absolute must for any nature lover. This comprehensive, pocket size field guide covers the largest genus in the Cape Peninsula. With species descriptions, clear and detailed line drawings, diagnostic features and distributional information Other features include a user-friendly botanical key, illustrated glossary and interesting comments by the author on the conservation status, relationships with other species and pollination of each species.

Other books in the series: Proteas of the Cape Peninsula, West Coast Proteas

Proteas of the Cape Peninsula

Tony Rebelo (2000)

An absolute must for any nature lover. This comprehensive pocket-size field guide covers the spectacular proteas of the Cape Peninsula. With species descriptions, detailed black and white illustrations, diagnostic features and a distributional map for each species. Other exciting features include a glossary, illustrated quick key to the genera and key to the species and notes relating to the conservation status,relationships with other species, historical information and pollination

Other books in the series: Ericas of the Cape Peninsula, West Coast Proteas

West Coast Proteas

Tony Rebelo (1999)

This booklet covers the rare and endangered gems found of the West Coast. With species descriptions, detail illustrations, detailed distributional maps and diagnostic features for each species. Other features inlcludes a illustrated quick key to the genera and key to species, meanings of all botanical names, Red Data Book status of each species and notes on the relationships with other species and interesting information on fire survival strategies.

Other books in the series: Proteas of the Cape Peninsula, Ericas of the Cape Peninsula

Proteas of the Summer Rainfall Region

AG Rebelo (1995)

This booklet covers the Proteas in South Africa that do not occur in Fynbos - so it is indispensible for those proteas that occur in Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape. The 26 species each have a species description (under headings of Habit, Leaves, Flowerheads, Florets), detailed illustration, detailed distribution map and diagnostic features. All known common names, including Afrikaans, Shona, Sotho, Swazi, Xhosa and Zulu are also included. Other features include an illustrated quick key to the genera and sections, meanings of botanical names, and notes.

This is a Share Net Environmental Resources Guide Series: Pocket Guide # 5.

Sasol Proteas

Tony Rebelo (1995)

Sasol Proteas is the field guide recommended for use by Protea Atlassers. It was designed with amateur field identification in mind. Easy to use "Quick Keys" illustrate the main groups of proteas for identifying the 14 genera and also sections within the genera. Text and pictures are grouped in clusters of most similar species, making quick visual identification simple. The start of each section includes an illustration of the group (genus or section) together with a short summary of the diagnostic features. Where needed a further key or summary of features to note in the identification of species within the section is given. The photographs by Colin Paterson Jones were chosen to show the diagnostic features in close up detail, and include the scale for comparison between pictures. The text for each species comprises a description - in simple English, with diagnostic features in italics to facilitate comparison between other species; as well as data on Distribution, Habitat, Status, Flowers, Fruits, and additional Notes on some species. A detailed map summarises the distribution of the species. SASOL Proteas starts with an introduction to the ecology of proteas, dealing with pollination, seed dispersal, root strategies, flowering, avoiding herbivory and fire, and growing proteas. A few notes on how to use the book and a locality map complete the introduction. The book ends off with the four extinct species, An illustrated Glossary (augmenting the simple English text for reference purposes), A list of Common Names, A list of Scientific names (including all those old synonyms that most people know so well), and References & Further reading completes SASOL Proteas.

SASOL Proteas edition 1 is currently out of print but it is expected that Sasol Proteas edition 2 will be published sometime in 2001.

SASOL Proteas is ook in Afrikaans verkrygbaar.

Sasol Proteas Edition 2

Tony Rebelo (2001)

The fully updated second edition of SASOL Proteas presents the latest information avaiable after 10 years of atlassing by almost 500 atlassers. Since the publication of the first edition in 1995, three new species have been found (we have since discovered two more! See Forlorn Spiderhead - Serruria scoparia rediscovered after 200 years and Climax Conebush - 'Leucadendron climacticum'), a species believed to be extinct has been rediscovered, and the distribution ranges of one third of species have been extended. The second edition retains the handy guide features of quick keys, clear and concise text and more than 480 photographs to aid the identification of the 370 proteas in the field. The diagnostic features of genera and species are highlighted. The distribution maps were compiled automatically from the Protea Atlas Project database, combining information from herbarium records and data submitted by atlassers to produce maps filtered to within 3km resolution. Of course, this detail could not be presented in the map space available and map localities have had to be buffered to improve clarity, resulting in an extremely accurate, but appealing map of the species distributions. SASOL Proteas is an invaluable companion on all rambles in Fynbos, honed by thousands of hours of atlassing to the ideal field identification kit for Proteas.  It has been published in association with the National Botanical Institute and with the support of SASOL and WWF-SA.

Copies can be obtained from any bookshop, or from Fernwood Press at about R150.00.