9781842463987
Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The Plants of Dom, Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon
A Conservation Checklist
Dom is located in the Bamenda Highlands of North West Region (formerly North West Province) of Cameroon, and is home not just to several hundred people, but to several areas of forest now protected, managed, and in the process of being enlarged by the people of Dom, guided by the Bamenda-based NGO Apiculture and Nature Conservation organisation (ANCO). These protected forest areas are among the last fragments of a much greater area of forest that occurred in the Kejojang Mountains.
This book describes the 356 species and varieties of plant discovered in the forests of Dom, to enable identification of the plant species within the checklist area, in particular those threatened with extinction – the highest priorities for conservation. To this end, details to aid the monitoring and management of each of the threatened taxa are given in a separate Red Data chapter, which includes line drawings.
This book is the fifth in a series of plant conservation checklists. Its predecessors dealt with the plants of Mt Cameroon (Cable & Cheek 1998), of Mt Oku and the Ijim Ridge (Cheek et al. 2000), Kupe, Mwanenguba and the Bakossi Mts (Cheek et al. 2004) and of Bali Ngemba Forest Reserve (Harvey et al. 2004)
This book describes the 356 species and varieties of plant discovered in the forests of Dom, to enable identification of the plant species within the checklist area, in particular those threatened with extinction – the highest priorities for conservation. To this end, details to aid the monitoring and management of each of the threatened taxa are given in a separate Red Data chapter, which includes line drawings.
This book is the fifth in a series of plant conservation checklists. Its predecessors dealt with the plants of Mt Cameroon (Cable & Cheek 1998), of Mt Oku and the Ijim Ridge (Cheek et al. 2000), Kupe, Mwanenguba and the Bakossi Mts (Cheek et al. 2004) and of Bali Ngemba Forest Reserve (Harvey et al. 2004)
162 pages | 50 color plates, 24 line drawings, 4 maps | 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 | © 2010
Biological Sciences: Botany
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
New Names
Foreword
The Checklist Area of Dom
Martin Cheek
Dom, A Tiny Village in the Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon Swings into Prominence
Paul Mzeka
Towards a Checklist of the Threatened Forest Remnants of Dom, Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon
Yvette Harvey
A Brief History of the Noni People
George Nkwanti
History of Forest Conservation in Dom
Paul Mzeka
Forest Restoration in Dom
Kenneth Tah
Introducing ANCO
Paul Mzeka
Reforestation Work at ANCO
Paul Mzeka
Geology, Geomorphology, Soils and Climate
Martin Cheek
Vegetation
Martin Cheek
Threats to the Forests of Dom and Kejojang
Martin Cheek
The Evolution of this Checklist
Martin Cheek
The History of Botanical Exploration at Dom
Martin Cheek
Preliminary Ethnobotany of Dom
Martin Cheek and the Fon of Dom
Endemic, Near-Endemic and New Taxa at Dom
Martin Cheek
A New Epiphytic Species of Coleochloa (Cyperaceae) from Cameroon
A. Muthama Muasya, Yvette Harvey, Martin Cheek, Kenneth Tah and David A. Simpson
Ardisia dom (Myrsinaceae) A New Shrub, Unique to the Forests of Dom
Martin Cheek
Ardisia bamendae (Myrsinaceae) A New Name for the Montane Ardisia of the Cameroon Highlands
Martin Cheek
Figures
Red Data Plant Species of Dom
Martin Cheek
Bibliography
Read This First: Explanatory Notes to the Checklist
Yvette Harvey
Vascular Plant Checklist
Dicotyledonae
Monocotyledonae
Pteridophyta
Index to Vascular Plant Checklist, Figures, Plates and Red Data Plants
Acknowledgements
New Names
Foreword
The Checklist Area of Dom
Martin Cheek
Dom, A Tiny Village in the Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon Swings into Prominence
Paul Mzeka
Towards a Checklist of the Threatened Forest Remnants of Dom, Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon
Yvette Harvey
A Brief History of the Noni People
George Nkwanti
History of Forest Conservation in Dom
Paul Mzeka
Forest Restoration in Dom
Kenneth Tah
Introducing ANCO
Paul Mzeka
Reforestation Work at ANCO
Paul Mzeka
Geology, Geomorphology, Soils and Climate
Martin Cheek
Vegetation
Martin Cheek
Threats to the Forests of Dom and Kejojang
Martin Cheek
The Evolution of this Checklist
Martin Cheek
The History of Botanical Exploration at Dom
Martin Cheek
Preliminary Ethnobotany of Dom
Martin Cheek and the Fon of Dom
Endemic, Near-Endemic and New Taxa at Dom
Martin Cheek
A New Epiphytic Species of Coleochloa (Cyperaceae) from Cameroon
A. Muthama Muasya, Yvette Harvey, Martin Cheek, Kenneth Tah and David A. Simpson
Ardisia dom (Myrsinaceae) A New Shrub, Unique to the Forests of Dom
Martin Cheek
Ardisia bamendae (Myrsinaceae) A New Name for the Montane Ardisia of the Cameroon Highlands
Martin Cheek
Figures
Red Data Plant Species of Dom
Martin Cheek
Bibliography
Read This First: Explanatory Notes to the Checklist
Yvette Harvey
Vascular Plant Checklist
Dicotyledonae
Monocotyledonae
Pteridophyta
Index to Vascular Plant Checklist, Figures, Plates and Red Data Plants