Plant Diversity Occurrence Data in Lake Ol Bolossat, Nyandarua County

They are primary producers, on which all other living organisms on Earth depend. Globally, there are an estimated 390,000 plant species documented to date, the majority of which are found in the tropics.

Kenya harbours about 7000 species of vascular plants, thereby having the second richest flora within the eastern Africa region compared to Tanzania (11000), Uganda (4500) and Ethiopia (6000) (Zhou et al. 2017). Previously, only about 370 species, classified into 255 genera belonging to 92 families (Terer et. al. 2019), were documented for the L. Ol Bolossat basin. However, the diversity is much higher than currently documented.