Location: Ngomakurira

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Photo: Mark Hyde
View from the summit of Domboshawa looking at Ngomakurira with the Chinhamora CL in the foreground.

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Photo: Bart Wursten
A view from Ngomakurira

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Photo: Bart Wursten
Ngomakurira seen from the main road.

General Information

Quarter degree square: 1731C1

Country: Zimbabwe

Habitat: Miombo woodland, seepage zones on granite, rocky habitats and riverine vegetation.

Altitude range: 1400 - 1650

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Description

Ngomakurira is a large granite mountain in the Chinhamora Communal Land. It is 9 kms NE of Domboshawa and has many similar habitats. It also shares with Domboshawa a number of the same localized species.
One of the most important botanical highlights is the rare fern Aleuritopteris welwitschii which in Zimbabwe has only been recorded from Ngomakurira.

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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Location details: Ngomakurira.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/location-display.php?location_id=36, retrieved 4 December 2024

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