Guide to the Naturalized and Invasive Plants of Laikipia

• Main Author: Witt, Arne (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: CABI 2017
• Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Kenya; invasives; nonindigenous species; Solanales; Prosopis; eudicots; Caesalpinia decapetala; Fabales; Parthenium hysterophorus; Asterales; Opuntia stricta; exotic species; ACP Countries; weeds; Solanaceae; invasive organisms; eukaryotes; nonindigenous organisms; Commonwealth of Nations; Africa; Mimosoideae; Acacia mearnsii; non-native species; invasions; invasive alien species; Caryophyllales; late black wattle; Developing Countries; Opuntia; East Africa; non-indigenous species; non-native organisms; common prickly pear; weed control; Caesalpinia; blackwood; plants; Parthenium; Acacia melanoxylon; Bryophyllum; introduced organisms; Cestrum; Cactaceae; Prosopis juliflora; invasive species; Fabaceae; Africa South of Sahara; Caesalpinioideae; angiosperms; exotic organisms; Cestrum aurantiacum; Acacia; Asteraceae; subsaharan Africa; Spermatophyta; Anglophone Africa; alien invasive species; introduced species; non-indigenous organisms
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The impetus for the development of this Field Guide came about as a result of pleas from the community around the village of Doldol, Laikipia County, to initiate a control programme for Australian prickly pear [Opuntia stricta (Haw.) Haw.; Fabaceae], an invasive plant which was having a dramatic imp...