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The terrestrial vegetation of the Gwembe Valley now flooded was characteristically deciduous except for a narrow fringe of evergreen trees on fertile alluvia along the rivers. It was described as predominantly savannah woodland dominated by mopane, Colophospermum mopane (Child, 1968) with widely distributed vegetation of a thicket type (Trapnell & Clothier, 1957). Angularly branched, often spiny, shrubs and other small trees of an early-deciduous type (notably Commiphora spp) combined with a similar variety of species to form impenetrable belts. Three types of thicket (lusaka, londe, and luumpa) were described by Scudder (1962).
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Balon, E.K., Coche, A.G. (1974). Flora, Fauna, and Human Population. In: Balon, E.K., Coche, A.G. (eds) Lake Kariba. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2334-4_4
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