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Table
5.2. Th e sp ectrum of coastal orest typ es. Empty boxes rlect areas where the corresponence between
columns is in doubt
Moomaw
(1960)
White
(1983)
Corresponding 'noda' Comments/ examples
Lowland evergreen
Manilkara-Diospyros Z-I
scrub forest
Manilkara-Diospyros
N. Kenya coast: Boni
dry forest
Ludia-Diospyros
Genda-Genda South FR:
greenwayi
parts of slope
Cynometra-Manilkara
Northern or Southern Parts of Arabuko-Sokoke,
Cynometra-Manilkara
Msumbugwe (Northern);
Pande, Pugu Hills
Z-I
Scorodophloeus
(Southern). Local
undifferentiated
dominance of certain
forest
Julbnardia
other spp. can be
included or treated
separately
Lowland woodland
Brachystegia-Afzelia
Brachystegia-Afzelia
Mida-Gede; parts of
Arabuko-Sokoke
Z-I
transition
woodland
Brachystegia-Baphia
(Sera!) Woodland at
kirkii
Gongolamboto: remnant
ofMogo
FR
Baphia kirkii
Dry forest at Kisiju and
Hymenaea
Pan de
Dialium
Moist forest Pugu Hills
(
+
Kambe
kaya);
mild
slopes
holtzii-(Baphia)
A ntiais-M iicia
Moist forest Pugu Hills
valley basin
Z-I
Lowland dry forest
Combretum-Cassipourea
undifferentiated
Combretum-Cassipourea
Kenyan coral rag (e.g.
on coral rag
forest
Shimoni)
Combretum (Sterculia)
Spectrum from Drier
types (Genda-Genda;
parts Kaya Jibana) ...to
Combretum-Sterculia
Coastal rain forest (e.g.
Lowland rain forest
Sterculia Chlorophora
Mixed
parts of Mrima Hill)
(Sterulia-Milicia,
etc.)
Z-I
lowland rain (Moist-High spp.)
forest
moister areas. The best developed areas of
Com-
bretum-Sterculia
forest are associated ith the
limestones, both Jurassic limestones and recent
coral, of Kenya and northen Tanzania. Drier
eremes become increasingly rich in
Combretum
schumannii,
with almost pure stands in parts of the
kaya
forests and on Genda-Genda Hill, on
well-
drained soils.
Cassipourea euyoides
is not common
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