Phytochemical Analysis and Allelopathic Potential of an Aggressive Encroacher Shrub, ().

is an encroaching shrub species that poses a threat to grassland diversity and productivity in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa. This shrub inhibits understory herbaceous plant recruitment and establishment, thereby exposing soils to erosion, owing potentially to toxins it secretes. However, the allelochemicals of and their potential effects on the germination and establishment of plants remains poorly understood.