mistbelt

See also: mist-belt and mist belt

English

Noun

mistbelt (plural mistbelts)

1. Alternative form of mist belt
   • 1927, Thomas Robertson Sim, Treeplanting in South Africa:

     It seems to me that its place in South Africa is along the subtropical coast, or in the mistbelts where frost is usually absent.

   • 1983, W. B. G. Jacobsen, The Ferns and Fern Allies of Southern Africa, page 134:

     The species grows mainly as epiphyte in shady wet forests, but also lithophytic on wet rocks, preferably in the mistbelt of escarpment forests, rarely chasmophytic in humus pockets on rocks (God's Window, eastern Transvaal).

   • 1998, Keith N. Barnes, The Important Bird Areas of Southern Africa, page 184:

     The region is bounded roughly as follows: in the west by the Umtamvuna River; in the south and east by the 900 m a.s.l. contour line - below this the climate is too warm and dry for mistbelt grassland; and in the north by high ground above about 1 300 m a.s.l. where the clamate becomes too cold for mistbelt grassland.

   • 2013, Bruce A. Schaffer, B. Nigel Wolstenholme, Antony William Whiley, The Avocado: Botany, Production and Uses, →ISBN, page 96:

     Similarly, high rainfall mistbelt areas have much cloud cover in summer that lowers photoassimilation.