Phenotypic Diversity of Doum Palm (Hyphaene compressa), a Semi‐Domesticated Palm in the Arid and Semi‐Arid Regions of Kenya

Table 1

Attributes of the study sites from which Hyphaene compressa (doum palm) samples were collected in Kenya in 2018.

Region	Coastal		Eastern	Northern
	Kwale	Tana River	Tharaka Nithi	Turkana
Coordinates	38° 31 and 39° 31׳ east	38° 25׳ and 40° 15׳ east	37° 19׳ and 37° 46׳ east	34° 30׳ and 36° 40׳ east
	30°3׳ and 40° 45׳ south	0° 0׳ and 2° 0׳ south	00° 07׳ and 00° 26׳ south	1° 30׳ and 5° 30׳ north
Total area (km^2)	8270	38682	2662	77,000
Rainfall (mm)	400–1680	280–900	500–2200	300–450
Temperature (°C)	24–36	23–38	14–36	20–41
Major economic activities	Tourism, fishing agriculture mining (titanium)	Agri-pastoralists fishing	Agri-pastoralism fishing	Pastoralism, fishing

Sources [17–21].