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 | | In Southern Africa the Cape folded mountains of Drakensberg, the Table Mountains, the Soutpansberg Mountains, Thabana Ntlenyana (Lesotho Mountain). |
 | | In Eastern Africa, we have the eastern highlands and their mountains, - Mt. Ras Daschan, Abune Yosef, Choke and Guge in Ethiopia, Mount Kenya, Aberdare and Cherangani Hills in Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro and Usambara in Tanzania and Mount Elgon and the Ruwenzori in Uganda. |
 | | Above the treeline is the sub-alpine (heath and moorland belt) dominated by Philippia, Anthospermum, Artemisia and Stoebe, the alpine zone made up of the alpine tussock dominated by Helichrysum and the alpine desert dominated by bare rock and ice. |
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