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Protea angolensis
Also called Northern Protea, Angola Protea, Northern Sugarbush, Woodland Sugarbush
Protea angolensis is also known as the Angolan protea, northern protea or northern sugarbush. In Afrikaans it is known as the noordelijke suikerbos. This is a dwarf, multistemmed shrub or small straggling tree occurring in open wooded grassland and miombo.
This species occurs in northern, central and eastern Zimbabwe, throughout Zambia, western Angola, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, southern and western Tanzania, northern Malawi and to a limited extent in Mozambique (only in Tete). In Zambia it occurs throughout the country, and has been recorded in North-Western Province, Northern Province (Bangweulu Wetlands), Lusaka Province, Southern Province and Western Province.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Protea angolensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
