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Hagenia abyssinica J. F. Gmel.

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & zhouyd @ wbgcas. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6886 - 0662
  • 2. East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, P. O. Box 45166, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya & gmwachala @ museums. or. ke; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5334 - 0744
  • 3. Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & guangwanhu @ wbgcas. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7728 - 7976
  • 4. Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & qfwang @ wbgcas. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9143 - 8849 Authors for correspondence

Description

Hagenia abyssinica (Bruce) J.F.Gmel.

Habit: Tree.

Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ, UMF, HZ; 2 200–3 700 m. Distribution: II.

Voucher: Near Meru Mount Kenya Lodge, Alt. 2 994 m, 21 Jul. 2014, SAJIT 001956 (HIB) & CPG 28499 (HIB, PE).

References: Fries & Fries (1930b), Graham (1960), Bussmann (1993, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2006), Bussmann & Beck (1995a, 1998, 1999), Lange et al. (1997), Gathaara (1999).

Notes

Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
HIB, PE
Event date
2014-07-21
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Hagenia
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
SAJIT 001956, CPG 28499
Order
Rosales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
J. F. Gmel.
Species
abyssinica
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2014-07-21

References

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  • Graham, R. A. (1960) Rosaceae. In: Hubbard, C. E. & Milne-Redhead, E. (Eds.) Flora of Tropical East Africa. Crown Agents, London, 61 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. (1996) Destruction and management of Mount Kenya's forests. Ambio 25 (5): 314 - 317.
  • Bussmann, R. W. (2001) Succession and regeneration patterns of East African mountain forests: A review. Systematics and Geography of Plants 72 (2): 959 - 974. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3668731
  • Bussmann, R. W. (2006) Vegetation zonation and nomenclature of African Mountains: An overview. Lyonia 11 (1): 41 - 46.
  • Bussmann, R. W. & Beck, E. (1995 a) The forests of Mt. Kenya (Kenya), a phytosociological synopsis. Phytocoenologia 25 (4): 467 - 560. https: // doi. org / 10.1127 / phyto / 25 / 1995 / 467
  • Bussmann, R. W. & Beck, E. (1998) The plant communities of the forests of Mount Kenya - First phytosociological and ecological data. In: Ojany, F. F. (Ed.) African mountains and highlands - planning for sustainable use of mountain resources. United Nations University, Tokyo, pp. 96 - 107.
  • Bussmann, R. W. & Beck, E. (1999) Vegetation units of Mt. Kenya Forest Reserve: Comment. In: Bitok (Ed.) Vegetations-okologosche, ethnobotanische und faunistische Beitrage uber Aquatorial-Afrika. Bayreuther Forum Okologie 64. Bayreuther Forum Okologie, Bayreuth, pp. 17 - 28.
  • Lange, S., Bussmann, R. W. & Beck, E. (1997) Stand structure and regeneration of the subalpine Hagenia abyssinica forest of Mt. Kenya. Botanica Acta 110: 473 - 480. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1438 - 8677.1997. tb 00665. x
  • Gathaara, G. N. (1999) Aerial survey of the destruction of Mt. Kenya, Imenti and Ngare Ndare forests reserves. Kenya Wildlife Service, Nairobi.