Table 4.
Ranking (R) of the top eight plant families, number of species (Tot sp.), and percentage of total species (% Sp.) for all plant sub-communities used by white-winged flufftail at Middelpunt Wetland and Verloren Valei Nature Reserve, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
| family | all communities |
community 1 |
community 2 |
community 3 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | Tot sp. | % Sp. | R | Tot sp. | % Sp. | R | Tot sp. | % Sp. | R | Tot sp. | % Sp. | |
| Cyperaceae | 1 | 9 | 20 | 1 | 8 | 33.3 | 1 | 8 | 25.0 | 3 | 5 | 16.7 |
| Asteraceae | 2 | 8 | 17.8 | 2 | 4 | 16.7 | 2 | 6 | 18.8 | 1 | 7 | 23.3 |
| Poaceae | 2 | 8 | 17.8 | 3 | 3 | 12.5 | 3 | 4 | 12.5 | 1 | 7 | 23.3 |
| Apiaceae | 4 | 2 | 4.4 | |||||||||
| Iridaceae | 4 | 2 | 4.4 | 4 | 2 | 6.3 | 4 | 2 | 6.3 | |||
| Juncaceae | 4 | 2 | 4.4 | 4 | 2 | 8.3 | 4 | 2 | 6.3 | 4 | 2 | 6.3 |
| Lamiaceae | 4 | 2 | 4.4 | 4 | 2 | 8.3 | 4 | 2 | 6.3 | 4 | 2 | 6.3 |
| Polygonaceae | 4 | 2 | 4.4 | |||||||||