Review Article
A Review on Bamboo Resource in the African Region: A Call for Special Focus and Action
Table 5
A summary of the origin and distribution of bamboo resource in the African region.
| | List of countries | Origin of bamboo species | | Indigenous | Introduced | Total |
| | Algeria | | 1 | 1 | | Angola | 5 | | 5 | | Benin | 2 | 3 | 5 | | Burkina Faso | 2 | 1 | 3 | | Burundi | 4 | | 4 | | Cameroon | 10 | 3 | 13 | | Central African Republic | 2 | | 2 | | Chad | 1 | | 1 | | Comoros | 2 | | 2 | | Cote d’Ivoire | 3 | 1 | 4 | | Democratic Republic of Congo | 4 | 2 | 6 | | Egypt | | 2 | 2 | | Equatorial Guinea | 2 | | 2 | | Eritrea | 1 | | 1 | | Ethiopia | 3 | 25 | 28 | | Gabon | 3 | | 3 | | Gambia | 2 | | 2 | | Ghana | 8 | 16 | 24 | | Guinea | 2 | 1 | 3 | | Guinea-Bissau | 2 | | 2 | | Kenya | 5 | 16 | 21 | | Lesotho | 3 | | 3 | | Liberia | 3 | | 3 | | Libya | | 1 | 1 | | | Indigenous | Introduced | Total | | Madagascar | 37 | 8 | 45 | | Malawi | 4 | | 4 | | Mali | 1 | | 1 | | Mauritius | 1 | 2 | 3 | | Morocco | | 1 | 1 | | Mozambique | 3 | 4 | 7 | | Niger | 1 | | 1 | | Nigeria | 4 | 12 | 16 | | Republic of Congo | 4 | | 4 | | Réunion | 1 | 1 | 2 | | Rwanda | 2 | 1 | 3 | | São Tomé and Príncipe | 2 | 2 | 4 | | Senegal | 2 | | 2 | | Seychelles | | 5 | 5 | | Sierra Leone | 3 | 1 | 4 | | South Africa | 2 | 1 | 3 | | South Sudan | 2 | | 2 | | Sudan | 3 | 10 | 13 | | Swaziland | 1 | | 1 | | United Republic of Tanzania | 6 | | 6 | | Togo | 5 | 20 | 25 | | Uganda | 5 | 1 | 6 | | Zambia | 4 | | 4 | | Zimbabwe | 3 | | 3 |
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Note. The six islands surrounding the mainland Africa are indicated with asterisks. The species list for each country is in Table 1. |
