Useful Tree Species for Eastern Africa

a species selection tool based on the VECEA Map



Swamp forests (fs)

Description

In analogy with riverine forests (fr), we decided not to map floristic variants of swamp forests although White (1983) treated swamp forests separately within the descriptions of regional centres of endemism. Actually, it was in most situations not practical to map swamp forests.

On alluvial deposits of the Kagera river (on the western shore of Lake Victoria), a unique swamp forest occurs that is composed almost in equal proportions of lowland (especially Guineo-Congolian) and Afromontane species and that is dominated by Baikiaea insignis (a Guineo-Congolian species) and by Podocarpus usambarensis var. dawei (an Afromontane species; White 1983 p. 181).

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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