Claim · model-written summary
Fifty-six flowering plant species are recorded for the first time in Rwanda.
- Taxon
- flowering plantsMagnoliopsidae0
- Outcome
- speciese0
- Value
- 56 speciese0
- Setting
- Rwandae0
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Verbatim
e0“56 species of flowering plants are recorded here for the first time for Rwanda”
Title
EBERHARD FISCHER; AIMABLE NSANZURWIMO; BONNY DUMBO; et al. Phytotaxa 2024. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.673.1.1
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- Observation The checklist records 145 lycophyte and fern species.
- Observation The main forest block contains 124 lycophyte and fern species.
- Observation Cyamudongo Forest contains 55 lycophyte and fern species.
- Observation Twenty-one lycophyte and fern species in Rwanda are restricted to Cyamudongo.
- Observation Aspleniaceae was the richest lycophyte and fern family, with 34 species.
- Observation Pteridaceae had 17 recorded species.
- Observation Dryopteridaceae had 15 recorded species.
- Observation Hymenophyllaceae had 14 recorded species.
- Observation Thelypteridaceae had 13 recorded species.
- Observation Polypodiaceae had 10 recorded species.
- Observation Nyungwe National Park has 1311 flowering plant species in 137 families.
- Observation The main forest block has 982 flowering plant species.
- Observation Cyamudongo has 605 flowering plant species.
- Observation Of the flowering plants, 339 species in Rwanda occur only in Cyamudongo.
- Observation Twenty-four lycophyte and fern species are Albertine Rift endemics.
- Observation Six lycophyte and fern species are local endemics.
- Observation The endemic lycophytes and ferns comprise 16.5% of the park fern flora.
- Observation There are 234 endemic or near-endemic flowering plant species, representing 17.7% of flowering plants recorded in Nyungwe.
- Observation Thirty-four exotic and naturalised species have been recorded in the park.