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Aloes and Lilies of Ethiopia and Eritrea

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28 ALOES AND LILIES OF ETHIOPIA<br />

Fig. 14. Moist Afromontane Forest near Bonga, Kefa floristic region.<br />

Subtype 6b. Edges <strong>of</strong> moist evergreen Afromontane<br />

forest, bushl<strong>and</strong>, woodl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> wooded grassl<strong>and</strong> (MAF/<br />

BW)<br />

The subtype represents a grazing­cultivation complex<br />

following destruction <strong>of</strong> the forest, in the regrowth <strong>of</strong><br />

which it seems to form a seral stage following various<br />

forms <strong>of</strong> woodl<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> it is closely associated with<br />

communities that occur at forest edges (Friis et al.,<br />

1982). One <strong>of</strong> the lilies that occur in this vegetation type<br />

is the endemic Scadoxus nutans (Amaryllidaceae). This<br />

vegetation subtype is not mapped.<br />

7. Transitional rainforest (TRF)<br />

This forest type was what was earlier considered as<br />

subtype 2 <strong>of</strong> the Moist Afromontane Forest – the<br />

transitional rainforest <strong>and</strong> the lowl<strong>and</strong> semi-evergreen<br />

forest (Sebsebe Demissew et al., 2003, 2004; Sebsebe<br />

Demissew & Friis, 2009). Scattered examples <strong>of</strong> these<br />

forests are known from the western escarpment <strong>of</strong> the<br />

<strong>Ethiopia</strong>n Highl<strong>and</strong>s in the Wellega, Illubabor <strong>and</strong> Kefa

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