Gambeya gorungosana
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Gambeya gorungosana | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Sapotaceae |
Genus: | Gambeya |
Species: | G. gorungosana
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Binomial name | |
Gambeya gorungosana | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Gambeya gorungosana is species of evergreen tree native to the highlands of eastern and central Africa.
Range and habitat
Gambeya gorungosana ranges across eastern and central Africa, from Mozambique and Zimbabwe through Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to Uganda and Kenya, and in Angola, Gabon, and Cameroon.[1]
It is a characteristic tree in the Afromontane rain forests of the tropical African highlands, generally found on higher-rainfall slopes between 1200 and 2500 meters elevation.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Gambeya gorungosana (Engl.) Liben Plants of the World Online, Kew Science. Accessed 3 December 2022.
- ^ White, Frank F. (1983). The vegetation of Africa: A descriptive memoir to accompany the Unesco/AETFAT/UNSO vegetation map of Africa. UNESCO, 1983. ISBN 92-3-101955-4
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with 'species' microformats
- Taxonbars with automatically added basionyms
- Chrysophylloideae
- Afromontane flora
- Flora of East Tropical Africa
- Flora of South Tropical Africa
- Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa
- Flora of the Albertine Rift montane forests
- Plants described in 1904
- Taxa named by Adolf Engler