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SUDAN
LEGEND
1. Desert
2. Semi-desert
a. Acacia tortilis-Maerua crassifolia desert scrub
b. Semi-desert grassland on clay
c. Semi-desert grassland on sand
d. Acacia mellifera-Commiphora desert scrub
e. Acacia glaucophyllaAcacia etbaica scrub
3. Woodland savannah with high rainfall on latérite catena soils
a. Anogeissus-Khaya-Isoberlinia deciduous woodland
b. Woodland recently derived from rain forest
4. Flood region
5. Montane vegetation
6. Woodland savannah with low rainfall on clay
a. Acacia mellifera thornland on dark cracking clay, alternating with grass
areas
b. Acacia mellifera thornland on hill soils formed in situ, associated with
Commiphora africana and Boscia senegalensis
c. Acacia seyal-Balamites savannah, alternating with grass areas
d. Anogeissus-Combretum Hartmannianum savannah woodland
7. Woodland savannah with low rainfall on sand
a. Acacia Senegal savannah
b. Combretum cordofanum-D alb ergia-Albizzia sericocephala savannah woodland
c- Terminalia-Sclerocaryea-Anogeissus-Prosopis savannah woodland
8. Special areas of low rainfall woodland savannah
a. Toposa area
b. Hill catena
c. Baggara repeating pattern
d. Raqaba repeating pattern
SUDAN. Survey Department
1954 Khartoum ,The Department
1954 "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN, UPPER NILE BASIN"
in color 1:2,000,000
LEGEND
1. The ironstone region: mixed deciduous broad leaved woodland with tall
perennial grass
2. The flood region
a. Highland
al. Acacia—Balanites forests with Setaria incrassata grassland
a2. Open palm or mixed Acacia dominated forests with mixed annual/
perennial grasses
b. Intermediate land
bl. Open Hyparrhenia rufa type grassland with limited area of Acacia—
Balanites forests
b2. Open Setaria incrassata type grassland with Acacia—Balanites forests
c Swamp: Permanent papyrus swamp
3. The transitional belt, Acacia-Balanites forests with open tall grass areas
("Hariq" grassland)
4. The semi-arid region
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