| AGRICERT | Agricultural Certification Body |
| ANOVA | Analysis of Variance |
| CSIR | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of South Africa |
| FIV | Family importance value |
| FL% | Fidelity level percentage |
| IPNI | International Plant Name Index |
| NRF | National Research Foundation of South Africa |
| POWO | Plants of the World Online |
| PPV | Plant part use value |
| RFC | Relative frequency of citation |
| SANBI | South African Biodiversity Institute |