Location and Geomorphology Rugged Olifants Landscape

This landscape includes the direct drainage area adjoining the Olifants River, from the western boundary of the KNP to approximately the sandstone koppies at Shiswayini.
To the north it extends to about the Letaba / Phalaborwa powerline and southwards to the northern boundary of the neighbouring area of Peru. It is a strongly undulating terrain with steep slopes and a great number of small spruits which drain into the Olifants River.
Among the most important are the Tshutsi, Mulalane, Misumane, Manyukelani from the north and the Klaseri, Tseri, Nhlaralume and Mvubuspruits from the south. According to Schutte (1982) the parent material of the area comprises metamorphic rock such as amphibolite, serpentine, quartzite, quartz-schist and other rocks of Swazium age.
The altitude varies a lot but the greater portion of the landscape is situated between 250 and 300 metres. In the north-western part of this area the uplands can reach 400 metres above sea level.
The landscape occupies 360 km/2 or 1.8 percent of the KNP.

All the trees below are found in the Dry Rugged Veld of this landscape region.
Acacia exuvialis:
Acacia nigrescens:
Acacia nilotica:
Albizia anthelmintica:
Albizia harveyi:
Boscia albitrunca:
Cissus cornifolia:
Colophospermum mopane:
Combretum apiculatum:
Combretum hereroense:
Combretum imberbe:
Commiphora africana:
Commiphora mollis:
Dalbergia melanoxylon:
Dichostachys cinerea subsp. Africana:
Ficus smutsii:
Grewia bicolor:
Grewia flavescens:
Grewia villosa:
Hexalobus monopetalus:
Holmskioldia tettensis:
Kirkia wilmsii:
Lannea stuhlmannii:
Maerua parvifolia:
Maytenus heterophylla:
Olax dissitiflora:
Ozoroa engleri:
Pappea capensis:
Rhigozum zambesiacum:
Securinega virosa:
Selerocarya caffra:
Terminalia prunioides:
Tricalysia allenii:
Zanthoxylum humilis:
Ziziphus mucronata:

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