NCGS Species Origins

Pre-release. This site describes standard version 0.7.0-dev, which is in development and may change before version 1.0.0.

Whether a species is indigenous to South Africa, naturalised, or exotic. Drives the safeguard and the preference for indigenous stock.

Exotic

Introduced; includes most fruit trees.

Indigenous

Native to South Africa.

Naturalised

Introduced long ago and now self-sustaining without being listed as invasive.

This page explains the standard and does not decide conformance: only the released corpus does. It describes glossary/species-attributes.ttl at standard version 0.7.0-dev.