Aloes and Lilies of Ethiopia and Eritrea

14 ALOES AND LILIES OF ETHIOPIA
Fig. 4. Current
regions and
zones of
Ethiopia,
from Sebsebe
Demissew et al.
(2004).
Brief description of the vegetation types
in Ethiopia and Eritrea
Over the last 50 years, there have been a number of
attempts to map the vegetation of Ethiopia and Eritrea on
scales between 1:5,000,000 and 1:10,000,000. A detailed
summary was given by Friis & Sebsebe Demissew
(2001).
In the first edition of the book, “Flowers of Ethiopia
and Eritrea: Aloes and other Lilies” published in 2003, the
vegetation map was following Sebsebe et al. (1996), CSE
(1997) and Friis (1992) with a scale of 1:10,000,000.
Fig. 5 (Opposite page). Vegetation map of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Ethiopian
part of the map with permission redrawn and simplified from Atlas of the
potential Vegetation of Ethiopia (Friis et al. in prep.); Eritrean part of the
map based on Sebsebe Demissew et al. (2003).