Trees in The Kruger’s Gertenbach 5 Landscape

Location and Geomorphology… see map below
This landscape is discontinuous due to the fact that it consists of two areas which are separated by Landscape 4 viz, the thickets of the Sabie and Crocodile Rivers. One portion of this landscape occurs in the southern district and the remainder forms the south western part of the Central District as far north as the Orpen / Timbavati area. The geological substrata are granite and gneiss with numerous dolerite intrusions which never exceed 10 metres in breadth (Schutte 1974). This landscape occurs mainly on or close to the watersheds and therefore includes only the upper courses of most spruits viz, the Mbyamite, Mlambane, Nwatimhiri and Nwatimwambu in the southern sub-region and the Nwatindlopfu, Nwaswitsonto, Sweni and Nwanedzi in the northern sub-region. The landscape is undulating with distinct uplands, ecotones and bottomlands. The altitude varies between 350 and 500 m and the landscape occupies 1578 km/2 or 8.1 percent of the KNP.

Acacia gerrardii: found in Bottomlands
Acacia nigrescens: found in Bottomlands
Acacia tortilis: found in Bottomlands
Albizia harveyi: found in Bottomlands
Bolusanthus speciosus: found in Bottomlands
Cissus cornifolia: found in Bottomlands
Combretum apiculatum: found in Bottomlands
Combretum hereroense: found in Bottomlands
Combretum imberbe: found in Bottomlands
Commiphora africana: found in Bottomlands
Dalbergia melanoxylon: found in Bottomlands
Dichrostachys cinerea subsp. Africana: found in Bottomlands
Ehretia rigida: found in Bottomlands
Grewia bicolor: found in Bottomlands
Lannea stuhlmannii: found in Bottomlands
Ormocarpum trichocarpum: found in Bottomlands
Pterocarpus rotundifolius: found in Bottomlands
Ziziphus mucronata: found in Bottomlands
Acacia gerrardii.: found in Seepline
Albizia harveyi: found in Seepline
Combretum apiculatum: found in Seepline
Combretum zeyheri: found in Seepline
Maytenus heterophylla: found in Seepline
Peltophorum africanum: found in Seepline
Sclerocarya caffra: found in Seepline
Terminalia sericea: found in Seepline
Albizia harveyi: found in Steep Slopes
Albizia nigrescens: found in Steep Slopes
Sclerocarya caffra: found in Steep Slopes
Acacia burkei: found in Uplands
Acacia exuvialis: found in Uplands
Cissus cornifolia: found in Uplands
Combretum apiculatum: found in Uplands
Combretum zeyheri: found in Uplands
Commiphora africac: found in Uplands
Dalbergia melanoxylon: found in Uplands
Dischrostachys cinerea subsp. Africana: found in Uplands
Lannea stuhlmannii: found in Uplands
Ormocarpum trichocarpum: found in Uplands
Peltophorum africanum: found in Uplands
Pterocarpus rotundifolius: found in Uplands
Sclerocarya caffra: found in Uplands
Strychnos madagascariensis: found in Uplands
Terminalia sericea: found in Uplands
Ziziphus mucronata.: found in Uplands

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