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- Vegetation zones. Peak to 14000' [feet] = Nival Zone.
North Slope. 14000-11000 - Alpine zone.
11000-10500 - Heather "
10,500-10000 [+/-] Hagenia - Hyperium
9000-10000 [+/-] Montane forest
Ericaceous Zone.[underlined] Erica arborea [underlined], Helichrysum kilimanjari [underlined]
Protea kilimandscharica [underlined]. On boggy ground Festuca
pilgeri [underlined] + Carex monostachya [underlined] form huge detached clumps
I saw occassional [occasional] flowering clumps of Kniphofia rogersi [underlined]
and along a small stream photographed a single large plant
of the slender stemmed Megaphytic grounded Senecio battiscombei [underlined]
Alpine Zone. [underlined] is divisible into an upper + lower sub zone.
The lower typified by the low growing (sessile) Senecio brassica [underlined]
+ the great tussock grasses + the upper by the tall, stout, Senecio
keniodendron [underlined] from 11,500' [feet] - 15300' [feet]. Brassica grows on damp ground
with standing water almost to soil surface; keniodendron [underlined] on
better drained sites that have constant water supply. Lobelia
keniensis [underlined] grows along with S. [Senecio] brassica [underlined], in sheltered spots as high as
14,000 ft [feet]. Both these are stoloniferous, sending out creeping stems
from the early leaf scars.
Lobelia telekii [underlined] is more usually monocarpic. It has long
silky bracts, flowers hidden + almost colorless. It usually occurs
on well drained sites usually 11,500-15000 ft. [feet]
The Helichrysum I collected + photographed at 13300' [feet] is H. [Helichrysum] brownii[?]
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