Flora and vegetation

Flora and vegetation The flora of the Niokolo Koba is very rich. Of the roughly 2500 species of hig­her plants in Senegal the PNNK has about 1500 of them (Adam 1971; Schneider and Sambou 1982; Madsen et al. 1996) and in the Herbarium of the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar 1 117 of them have been stored (Ba et al. 1997). The species recorded in the park belong to 120 famili­es, of which 4 are the most numerously represented: Poaceae (13.6 %), Faba­ceae (12.7 %), Cyperaceae (7.2 %) and Rubiaceae… More information...

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