caffra

The crater floor is mainly open shortgrass plains with fresh and brackish water lakes, marshes, swamps and two patches of Acacia woodland: Lerai Forest, with co-dominants yellow fever tree Acacia xanthophloea and Rauvolfia caffra; and Laiyanai Forest with pillar wood Cassipourea malosana, Albizzia gummifera, and Acacia lahai.

Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania 2009

The dominant vegetation types are, in the north, rocky high veld grassland and banken veld (open grassland of wiry grasses) with hookthorn Acacia caffra.

Vredefort Dome, South Africa 2009

This includes typical bush veld species such as grass veld sugarbush Protea caffra and false hookthorn Acacia hereroensis; also bush willow Combretum spp and red ivory Berchemia zeyheri, which are commoner hundreds of kilometers away.

Vredefort Dome, South Africa 2009

The following distinct tree and shrub communities have been described; Protea caffra; Acacia hereroensis; Olea europaea ssp africana - Pavetta zeyheri; Combretum molle; Buddleja saligna – Rhoicissus tridentata; Salix capensis; Diospyros lycioidis – Rhus pyroides and Acacia karoo – Protasparagus suaveolens.

Vredefort Dome, South Africa 2009

These include Acacia sieberana, Albizia versicolor, Combretum spp, Ficussycamorus, Sclerocarya caffra, Terminalia sericea and Ziziphus macronata.

Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets 2008

The park conserves a large area of "mixed savanna," dominated by Acacia karoo, A. caffra, and Faurea saligna.

Southern Africa bushveld 2007

A shrub savanna occurs on the gently rolling plains between the sand ridges and is mainly composed of Dichrostachys cinerea, Grewia flava, G. flavescens, Acacia mellifera, Bauhinia macrantha, Ximenia caffra, and Commiphora pyracanthoides.

Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands 2007

To the west of this, in an area surrounding the town of Mahalapye, the vegetation becomes a more open tree savanna of Acacia nigrescens, sometimes found along side Sclerocarya caffra, Peltophorum africanum, Acacia giraffe, and Combretum imberbe.

Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands 2007

The savanna surrounding the Waterberg Mountains is characterized by African beachwood (Faurea saligna), common hookthorn (Acacia caffra), red seringa (Burkea africana), Terminalia sericea, and Peltophorum africanum.

Southern Africa bushveld 2007

The rugged, rocky slopes of these mountains are dominated by white seringa (Kirkia acuminata), stemfruit (Englerophytum magalismontarum), Combretum apiculatum, C. molle, and common sugerbush (Protea caffra).

Southern Africa bushveld 2007