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. |