APPENDICES

Appendix 1: list of abbreviations and acronyms

Appendix 2: value and use of important species at national level

(i) Introduced species

Appendix 3: management and location of genetic resources by species and population

Appendix 4: level of security and nature of threats to the integrity of genetic resources of priority species

Appendix 5: list of priority species for conservation, improvement or seed procurement

Appendix 6: important species of Mozambique

Uapaca kirkiana

- small tree (up to 6 meters in height) with characteristically rounded crown;

- occurs at medium altitudes in open woodland, sometimes locally dominant on gravelly soils;

- Bark: dark grey and rough;

- leaves: scattered, clustered at the tips of the branches, ovate to obovate, large, usually about 17 × 11 cm;

- flowers: male and female flowers greenish-yellow, inconspicuous (January to April);

- fruit: spherical, rusty-yellow, 2.5 to 3 cm in diameter, flesh, with a rather hard skin surrounding the sweet edible (October).

Afzelia quansensis

- a medium to large spreading deciduous tree (12 to 15 meters in the height);

- occurs in low altitude woodland and dry forest;

- bark: greyish-brown and characteristically flaking in roundish woody scales, leaving pale patches;

- leaves: alternate, compound, leaflets oblong-elliptic, margin entire and wary;

- flowers: in simple sprays, stalks jointed, 4 sepals unequal, a single petal, large, clawed expanded, red with yellow veining;

- fruit: a large, flat, thickly wood pod, 10 to 17 cm long, dark brown.

Pterocorpus angolensis

- a medium sized to large tree (up to 16 meters in height, reaching 20 meters under ideal conditions);

- occurs in woodland and wood glassland;

- bark: dark grey to brown, rough and longitudinally fissured;

- leaves: with 5 to 9 pairs of sub-opposite to alternate leaflets elliptic-lanceolate to obovate;

- flowers: orange-yellow, pea-shaped, produced in large, branched sprays, up to 20 cm long (August to December).

Securidaca longipenduculata

- small tree (up to 4 meters in height);

- occurs in various types of woodland and from sea level to about 1 600 meters;

- bark: light grey and smooth;

- leaves: alternate or clustered on dwarf lateral branches, simple, variable in size and shapes, pay rounded, base narrowly tapering, margin entire;

- flowers: rather small, about 10 mm long, bisexual, 5 sepals unequal, the lateral 2 being petaloid, large and wind-like, 3 petals, free, the median petal hooked;

- fruit: a more or less round nut, oblong, rather curved, membranous wing up to 4 cm long.

Sclerocarya birrea

- a medium sized tree (up to 10 meters in height, but it may reach 15 meters under favorable conditions);

- occurs in medium to low altitude, open woodland and bush;

- bark: grey, rough;

- leaves: alternate, compound, crowded near the ends of branches;

- flowers: in unbranched sprays, 5 to 8 cm long, sexes separate on the same tree or on different tree. Floral parts in fours to fives, sepals red, petals yellow, small, male flower: stamens 15 to 25; oval vestigial. Female flowers: stamens 15 to 25; ovary almost spherical (September to November);

- fruit: flesh, almost spherical, up to 3,5 cm, with three rather obscure points just below the apex, indehiscent (February to June).

Vangueria infausta

- small tree (3 to 7 meters in height);

- occurs in wooded grassland, among rocks and on sand dunes;

- bark: grey, smooth, branches covered with hairs;

- leaves: elliptic to ovate, 5 to 24 × 3.8 to 15 cm, densely covered with golden to tawny short soft hairs especially when young;

- flowers: greenish-white to yellowish, about 4 mm long and 6 mm in diameter, the corolla falling early;

- fruits: almost spherical, 2.5 to 3.5 cm in diameter, yellowish to brown when mature (January to April).

Dalbergia melanoxylon

- a shrub or straggling tree (5 to 7 meters in height, occasionally taller);

- occurs at medium to low altitudes in mixed woodland;

- bark: pale grey and smooth, several-stemmed and multi-branched, with stems and branches armed with spines;

- leaves: clustered with 8 to 13 opposite, to alternate, leaflets plus a terminal leaflet, apex rounded, base broadly tapering;

- flowers: small, white, pea-shaped, sweetly scented;

- fruit: a small, oblong pod, up to 7 × 1.5 cm, flattened, thin, indehiscent (January to March).

Androstachys johnsonii

- a medium sized erect tree (up to 15 meters in height);

- occurs at low altitudes, in deciduous woodland, forming thickets;

- bark: dark, distinctive and rough;

- leaves: simple/opposite, 1 pair set at right angles to the next;

- flowers: sexes separate on different trees.

Warburgia salutaris

- a slender tree (5 to 10 meters in height, but reaching 20 meters in some areas);

- occurs in evergreen forest and wooded ravines;

- bark: rich brown, rough;

- leaves: alternate, simple, aromatic, elliptic to lanceolate, 4.5 to 11 × 1 to 3 cm;

- flowers: white to greenish, about 10 mm in diameter, short, axillary sprays 2 to 4 cm long;

- fruit: 3 lobed ovoid capsuled, 1 to 1.5 cm long.

Terminalia sericea:

- a small to medium sized well-shaped tree, (4 to 6 meters in height but occasionally reaching 10 meters);

- occurs in open woodland on sandy soils;

- bark: dark grey or brownish, young stems are often parasitized;

- flowers: small, cream to pale yellow, heavily and rather unpleasantly in axillary spikes up to 7 cm long (September to January);

- fruit: 2.5 to 3.5 × 1.5 to 2.5 cm, pink to rose-red when mature.

Millettia stuhlmannii

- a large, fine, spreading tree (up to 20 meters in height);

- occurs in low altitude, high-rainfall forest and riverine fringe forest where it reaches its greatest size;

- bark: yellow or greenish-grey and smooth;

- leaves: large, compound, with 7 to 9 pairs of opposite leaflets plus a terminal leaflet, pale green above, apex round;

- flowers: very beautiful, large lilac, pea-shaped, in long, rather lax sprays up to 35 cm long (November to January);

- fruit: a woody, flat pod, about 25 cm long, with golden-brown, velvety hairs, dehiscent (April to May).

Syzigium sp. (gaertu)

- shrubs or trees;

- leaves: opposite, simple;

- flower: in axillary and terminal heads, cymes or corymbs; in several species, if not most, the flower heads are often parasitized and become sterile deformed clusters. Bisexual; floral parts in fours fives; calyx tube obovate, tapering into the stalk or pedicel;

- fruit: fleshy, 1-seeded, indehiscent.