Vegetation of Namwala district, Zambia
Forest Research Pamphlet No. 42 by D.B.Fanshawe
Digitized and edited by Mike Bingham, July 2015
Southern Province ‒ In 1997 Namwala District was subdivided, with the
creation of the new district Itezhi-tezhi. In this map, downloaded from
Wikipedia, the names are transposed; the larger part (green) is
Itezhi-tezhi, the smaller Namwala. Itezhi-tezhi District, most of which
lies within Kafue National Park, was moved from Southern to Central
Province in 2012.
Most of this series of reports are not dated, but assuming the
numbering approximates the order in which they appeared the Namwala
report was published in 1971 or ’72. The manuscripts were typed on wax
stencils. While modern scanners reproduce the text accurately, the
imperfections of the wax stencils cause many misreadings. The letters ,
‘c’, ‘e’ and ‘o’, for example, often cannot be distinguished.
I have adapted the format of the species lists to be more appropriate
as allowed by word processor technology. The appended Index lists all
species names alphabetically with a second column to give currently
accepted names. Names marked with an asterisk (*) are no longer valid,
and the currently accepted names can be found on the index. The
authenticity of the names can be checked on the
websites African Plant Database, or Zambia Flora.
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The Chakwenga Headwaters and the Nyabutaye Peat Bog
(December 2014).
Before Zambia went decimal the 80-mile milestone on the Great East Road
marked a feature which nature enthusiasts coined the 80-Mile Dambo. A
gorge cut into the hill range on the north side of the road drains into
a peat bog which is the source of the Nyabutaye (Nyautai on the Survey
Department maps), a short tributary of the Chakwenga, which has its
source about 1 km to the west.
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The Steep-sided Termite Mounds of the Zambian Copperbelt
(July 2014).
Steep-sided mounds are a feature of, but are not confined to the higher
rainfall zone of the miombo biome. On most of the plateau the
steep-sided mounds, when they occur, are aligned along the woodland
margins,
sometimes extending into the sandy dambos. On the flat or gently
inclined interfluves the mounds are often degraded, sometimes to the
point when they can be recognized only as circular patches of taller
grass. Degradation is the result of the clay being leached away to be
redeposited in the floodplains or dambo.
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Zambian species of Entandrophragma C.DC. (July 2014).
A genus of 11 species in tropical Africa. Most are emergents of
evergreen or deciduous forests, typically with cylindrical boles
unbranched to a considerable height. Leaves pinnate; leaflets opposite,
entire. Flowers borne on panicles on the new growth. Stamens completely
or partly fused to form a staminal tube. Fruit a large woody dehiscent
capsule, the five valves separating in various ways to release the
winged seeds. Three species in Zambia, including some of our tallest
trees.
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