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Katonga Wildlife Reserve 18Specific name Growth form 1 Habitat 1Paulinia pinnataBlighia welwitschii TT FFamily ScrophulariaceaeSopubia ramosaFamily SolanaceaePhysalis peruvianaSolanum aculeastrum S/ST wo,t,scSolanum incanumSSolanum indicumFamily SterculiaceaeDombeya dawei S/ST woFamily TiliaceaeGrewia mollis S/ST woGrewia similisSTriumfetta macrophyllaSTriumfetta rhomboideaSFamily VerbenaceaeClerodendrum myricoides SClerodendrum rotundifolium SLantana trifoliaSFamily VitaceaeCissus petiolataCissus quadrangularisSCyphostemma adenocauleNomenclature and taxonomy follow Howard (1994), Harker (1961), and Ms. Olivia Wanyana Maganyi.Key1 Howard, 1994Growth formTT tall tree (> 25m) CS climbing shrubST short tree (< 25m) C woody climberS shrub WH woody herbSS sub-shrubHabitatF forest interior r riverine forest/woodlandf forest edge ro rocky placesdf dry forest t bush/thicketwo savannah woodland sc dry scrubg grassland s swampThe reserve is located in the floral region U2 (see the FTEA (Polhill et al., 1954 & following)for explanation). All of the indigenous trees and shrubs of the reserve are recorded from U2in the FTEA, except for Acacia seyal, which was recorded from U2 in the Kagombe andKitechura Forest Reserves in Kibale and Kabarole Districts respectively during the ForestDepartment’s Biodiversity Inventory Programme in 1993 (Lwanga, 1996).None of the indigenous trees and shrubs of the reserve was recorded outside the altitudinalranges specified in the FTEA.The indigenous trees and shrubs of the reserve are recorded in the FTEA from the habitatslisted in Table 2.3 (many are recorded from more than one habitat). Only Blighia welwitschi,which is recorded from forest interiors only in the FTEA, is not recorded from a habitat foundwithin the reserve.Frontier-Uganda Wildlife Protected Areas Project September 1997Baseline Surveys Programme Report No. 9