Endemic and Near-Endemic Trees In the Usambara Mountains - Table1. Number of endemic and near-endemic taxa of the East (EU) and West Usambara (WU) Mts. (Iversen 1991).

Endemic and Near-Endemic Trees In the Usambara Mountains -
Table 1. Number of endemic and near-endemic taxa of the East (EU) and West Usambara (WU) Mts. (Iversen 1991).

Taxa	Endemics				Near-endemics		Grand total
	EU		EU & WU		EU & WU		EU & WU
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Total	64		41		487		656
Forest taxa	64	100	39	95	399	82	556	85
Forest trees (>5 m)	16	25	13	32	136	28	177	27
Tree taxa (>5 m)	16	25	14	34	153	31	195	30
Shrub taxa	18	28	8	20	92	19	134	20
Trees+shrubs	34	53	22	54	245	50	329	50

Five genera have at least six endemic taxa in the Usambaras (Table 2.)

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