Useful Tree Species for Eastern Africa

a species selection tool based on the VECEA Map



Zanzibar-Inhambane scrub forest

Description

Scrub forests are intermediate in structure between forest and bushland (and thicket). They are usually 10 - 15 m high. Trees (woody plants with well-defined and upright boles) are usually present but do not form a closed canopy. Diospyros cornii forms a discontinuous upper canopy of 9 to 15 m high. Manilkara mochisia is an almost constant associate, but is less plentiful. In many places, scrub forest has been degraded and converted into secondary deciduous bushland (White 1983 p. 188). Smaller woody plants (principally bushes and shrubs) contribute at least as much as the trees to the appearance of this vegetation type.

Zanzibar-Inhambane scrub forest forms a quasi-continuous belt that separates the forests of the coastal region (i.e. mainly Zanzibar-Inhambane undifferentiated forest ( Fp ) from the bushlands of the interior (i.e. especially deciduous bushland (Bd). This scrub forest reaches the Kenyan coast between Malindi and Lamu, where the rainfall is lower than elsewhere, and extends to southern Tanzania. On the regional map, this forest type is mapped as part of the coastal mosaic (CM).

Useful woody species

The main species recorded to occur within this vegetation type are listed below. Clicking the name of any of these species will open the page for that species on the Agroforestry Species Switchboard.

For more detailed information about the species occurrences see this excel workbook. It provides country specific information on species composition for this vegetation type. It also allows you to select a subset of useful tree species to provide desired products and services. For each species links to a number of websites / databases with information about this species are provided as well.

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