Food Vegetation Types Utilized by Gorillas
of Study Groups 4, 5, 8, and Nunkie's Group

(from Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey)

Fern Type

	Polypodium sp.


Grass - Sedge Type

	Arundinaria alpina
	Carex petitiana
	Cyperus sp.
	Pennisetum purpureum


Herbaceous Type

	Carduus afromontanus
	Carex petitiana
	Chaerefolium silvestre
	Cineraria grandiflora
	Conyza gigantea
	Cynoglossum amplifolium
	Cynoglossum geometricum
	Helichrysum formosissimum
	Helichrysum guilelmii
	Laportea alatipes
	Leucas deflexa
	Lobelia giberroa
	Lobelia wollastonii
	Peucedanum kerstenii
	Peucedanum linderi
	Rumex ruwenzoriensis
	Senecio maranguensis
	Senecio trichopterygius
	Solanum nigrum
	Thalictrum rynchocarpum
	Urtica massaica


Shrub Type

	Pycnostachys goetzenii
	Rubus apetalus
	Rubus runssorensis


Tree Type

	Afrocrania volkensii
	Erica arborea
	Hagenia abyssinica
	Hypericum revolutum
	Pygeum africanum
	Rapanea pulchra
	Senecio alticola
	Senecio erici-rosenii
	Veronia adolfi-friderici
	Xymalos monospora


Pararsitic Type

	Ganoderma applanatum
	Loranthus luteo-aurantiacus


Vine Type

	Basella alba
	Clematis simensis
	Crassocephalum bojeri
	Droguetia iners
	Galium spurium
	Mikania cordata
	Piper capense
	Stephania abyssinica 
	Stehania dinklagei
	Urera hypselendron