#udzungwa — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #udzungwa, aggregated by home.social.
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Massive, long-lived #trees discovered in the #Tanzanian rainforest are a new species https://phys.org/news/2025-03-massive-trees-tanzanian-rainforest-species.html
Tessmannia princeps (Fabaceae), a #NewSpecies of rainforest tree from the #Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.694.2.1
"In addition to its massive girth, the tree grows a little taller than others around it in the rainforest... some of the newly discovered trees could be up to 3,000 years old. They are also slow growing, taking up to 15 years to add 1 centimeter of girth."
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New genus of 'alien-faced' multi-legged forest dwellers discovered
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-genus-alien-multi-legged-forest.htmlThe trachystreptoform #spirostreptids of the #Udzungwa Mountains, #Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae) https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/2405
"#researchers have uncovered a new genus and 5 #NewSpecies of #millipedes in remote African #jungles—and say the many-legged creatures could hold important clues to whether woody #vines are choking or protecting the world's #forests."