Southern African Sand Forest
dunes in northern KwaZulu-Natal and southern Mozambique. In South Africa these forests are known simply as Sand Forest, while in Mozambique they are known as Licuati Forest.[1] The Southern African sand forest is part of the Maputaland coastal forest mosaic ecoregion
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Origins
Sand forests are thought to be relics of coastal dune forests, which have been separated from the ocean for more than a million years as the shoreline has shifted slowly eastwards over the millennia.biological evolution (notably speciation) is still in an active phase.[1]
Characteristics
Of the 225
allelopathic effects which may bring about this zone of inhibition and this aids in limiting fires spreading from the neighboring savannah into the forest; creating a unique environment for itself.[1]
List of trees (Incomplete)
- False Tamboti (Cleisanthus schlechteri)
- False White Ash (Pseudobersama mossambicensis)
- Flat-crown (Albizia adianthifolia)
- Galla-plum (Haplocoelum gallense)
- Glossy Flat-bean (Dalbergia nitidula)
- Green Thorn (Balanites maughamii)
- Green-apple (Monodora junodii)
- Large Cluster-pear (Uvaria lucida subsp. virens)
- Lavender Fever-berry (Croton gratissimus)
- Lavender-leaved Croton (Croton pseudopulchellus)
- Lebombo Wattle (Newtonia hildebrandtii)
- Lowveld Milkberry (Manilkara mochisia)
- Marsh Fever-berry (Croton steenkampianus)
- Mozambique Coffee (Coffea racemosa)
- Pink Lannea (Lannea antiscorbutica)
- Pod Mahogany (Afzelia quanzensis)
- Quar (Psydrax obovata)
- Quiver-leaf Fig (Ficus tremula)
- Red-hair Bush (Lasiodiscus pervillei subsp. pervillei)
- Red-heart Tree (Hymenocarida ulmoides)
- Saddle-pod (Wrightia natalensis)
- Sand Cabbage Tree (Cussonia arenicola)
- Sand Canary-berry (Suregada zanzibariensis)
- Sand Forest Gardenia (Hyperacanthus microphyllus)
- Sand Ivory (Berchemia sp. nov.)
- Sand Forest Num-num (Carissa tetramera)
- Sand knobwood (Zanthoxylon leprieuri)
- Sherbet Tree (Dialium schlechteri)
- Sneezewood (Ptaeroxylon obliquum)
- Stink Bushwillow (Pteleopsis myrtifolia)
- Swazi Ordeal Tree (Erythrophleum lasianthum)
- Tonga-kerrie (Cladostemon kirkii)
- Water Ironplum (Drypetes arguta)
- Wild Mandarin (Toddaliopsis bremekampii)
- Wild Mango (Cordyla africana)
- Zulu Coshwood (Cola greenwayi)
- Zulu Loquat (Oxyanthus latifolius)
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f Wayne Matthews. "Maputaland's Tembe Elephant National Park, - a little known reserve with many natural secrets". Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ Duncan Butchart CC Africa (21 November 2006). "Eyes on the wild". Wildwatch.com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2007.
- ^ Soil chronosequence development in dunes on the southeast African coastal plain, Maputaland, South Africa Quaternary International Volumes 162-163, March 2007, Pages 111-132 The Soil Record of Quaternary Climate Change. Greg Botha and Naomi Porat
- ^ The luminescence chronology of dune development on the Maputaland coastal plain, southeast Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews Volume 27, Issues 9-10, May 2008, Pages 1024-1046 Naomi Porat and Greg Botha
- ^ Duncan Butchart CC Africa (21 November 2006). "eyes on the wild". Wildwatch.com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2007.
- ISBN 0-620-17697-0.