Protea caffra Meisn. subsp. kilimandscharica (Engl.) Chisumpa & Brummitt

Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, Phytotaxa 546 (1), pp. 1-108 : 42

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https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6648329

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scientific name

Protea caffra Meisn. subsp. kilimandscharica (Engl.) Chisumpa & Brummitt
status

 

Protea caffra Meisn. subsp. kilimandscharica (Engl.) Chisumpa & Brummitt View in CoL

Habit: Small tree or shrub.

Habitat: UMF, HZ, AZ; 2 200–3 800 m. Distribution: IIIa.

Voucher: Sirimon Track , near Old Moses Camp Site , Alt. 3 351 m, 8 Jan. 2014, SAJIT 001643 ( HIB).

References: Fries & Fries (1929), Schelpe (1951), Young & Peacock (1985), Brummitt & Marner (1993), Bussmann (1993, 1994, 2006), Beentje (1994).

Beentje, H. J. (1994) Kenya trees, shrubs and lianas. National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, 762 pp.

Brummitt, R. K. & Marner, S. K. (1993) Proteaceae. In: Polhill, R. M. (Ed.) Flora of Tropical East Africa. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 30 pp.

Bussmann, R. W. (1993) The forest of Mt. Kenya (Kenya): A phytosociological approach with special reference to ecological problems. Ph. D. Thesis, Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen, Tubingen, 119 pp.

Bussmann, R. W. (1994) The forest of Mt. Kenya (Kenya): Vegetation, ecology, destruction and management of a tropical mountain forest ecosystem. Ph. D. dissertation, Universitat Bayreuth Startseite, Bayreuth, 252 pp.

Bussmann, R. W. (2006) Vegetation zonation and nomenclature of African Mountains: An overview. Lyonia 11 (1): 41 - 46.

Fries, R. E. & Fries, T. C. E. (1929) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Flora des Kenia, Mt. Aberdare und Mt. Elgon. XII. Notizblatt des Koniglichen Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin 10 (96): 594 - 621. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3994784

Schelpe, E. A. C. L. E. (1951) The Pteridophyta of Mount Kenya. American Fern Journal 41 (3): 65 - 74. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1545044

Young, T. P. & Peacock, M. M. (1985) Vegetative key to the alpine vascular plants of Mount Kenya. Journal of the East Africa National History Society & National Museum 75 (185): 1 - 9. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2028.2004.00514. x

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Proteales

Family

Proteaceae

Genus

Protea