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Title: THE DIVERSITY OF AQUATIC FLORA AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IN THE VICTORIA AND KYOGA LAKE BASINS

Date Published: 2000
Author/s: Anthony Katende
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Affiliation: Department of Botany, Makerere University P.O. Box 7062 Kampala -Uganda
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A great part of Uganda is endowed with water bodies in the forms of rivers and open water lakes. These bodies are never alone. They are either flanked or associated with plants, which are adapted to the wet conditions. They are so characteristic that they are part and parcel of the aquatic ecosystems. They occupy various positions depending on the amount of water in the relevant habitats. Thus various ecological terms are used to describe plants, which occupy each level of inundation