{"id":192,"date":"2010-04-18T20:28:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T18:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solene.moutardier.freehostia.com\/?page_id=192"},"modified":"2022-04-15T20:22:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T18:22:04","slug":"afrique-equatoriale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/culture\/les-biotopes\/afrique-equatoriale\/","title":{"rendered":"West Equatorial Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n            \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"gf-container container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>By West Equatorial Africa we mean the western part of intertropical Africa on either side of the Equator, from Guinea to northern Angola and along the Congo River. This area has little relief \u2013 the main mountain ranges being Mount Nimba (1,850 m) in the west and the Adamawa massif (4,000 m) in Cameroon \u2013 and is almost entirely covered by evergreen* rainforest (ombrophilous* forest). Its climate is shaped by the trade wind \u2013 north-easterly above the Equator, south-easterly below \u2013 which, meeting the oceanic trade wind, forms the clouds that bring rain. It is characterised by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Constant heat, around 25\u00b0C \/ 30\u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Days and nights of almost equal length all year round<\/li>\n<li>A small temperature range over the year, around 5\u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Heavy rainfall, over 1,500 mm a year, especially in the mountain forests where it can exceed 8,000 mm; rain falls almost constantly and the dry season is short.<\/li>\n<li>The result is high humidity*, often above 85%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\">\n            \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"gf-container container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>Growing conditions for these plants must take these factors into account: these are begonias for the terrarium, delicate and difficult to keep (to find out more, see the section \u201c\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Begonia culture<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0).<\/p>\n<p>Here are the begonias that grow in these regions, classified by plant \u201ctype\u201d and by section.<\/p>\n<h4>Plants that are mostly epiphytic* or rupicolous*<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>TETRAPHILA\u00a0:\u00a0<em>B. subscutata<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. polygonoides<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. gabonensis<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. ebolowensis<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. karperi<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. loranthoides<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. elaeagnifolia<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. longipetiolata<\/em>, \u00a0<em>B. squamulosa<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. kisuluana<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. eminii<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. fusialata<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. komoensis<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. capillipes<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. poculifera var. poculifera\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>B. mannii<\/em>\u00a0: from Guinea and Sierra Leone across the whole area (see also East and Southern Africa); epiphytic* plants<\/li>\n<li>SQUAMIBEGONIA\u00a0:\u00a0<em>B. ampla<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. bonus-henricus<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>B. poculifera var. teusziana<\/em>\u00a0: east of the Dahomey Gap, from Nigeria across Central Africa, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea (see also East and Southern Africa); often epiphytic* or rupicolous* plants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Plants that are mostly terrestrial (growing on the forest floor litter) or rupicolous*, sometimes climbing<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>BACCABEGONIA :\u00a0<em>B. baccata<\/em> : endemic to S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9; terrestrial or rupicolous* plant<\/li>\n<li>CRISTASEMEN\u00a0:\u00a0<em>B. thomeana<\/em> : S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Gabon; climbing plant<\/li>\n<li>FILICIBEGONIA\u00a0:\u00a0\u00a0<em>B. aspleniifolia<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. minutifolia<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. elatostemmoides<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. auriculata<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. macrocarpa<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. sciaphila<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. sessilifolia\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>B. gossweileri<\/em> : from Guinea to eastern Congo and south into Angola; terrestrial plants<\/li>\n<li>MEZIEREA :\u00a0<em>B. oxyloba<\/em> : the whole of tropical Africa (with other species from Madagascar, the Seychelles, the Comoros and the Mascarenes); terrestrial plant, rarely epiphytic* or saxicolous*<\/li>\n<li>SEXALARIA\u00a0:\u00a0<em>B. annobonensis<\/em> : coast of Cameroon, the islands of S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9, Pr\u00edncipe and Annob\u00f3n; terrestrial or rupicolous* plant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>The next two sections are those of the yellow-flowered begonias, which are small terrestrial, rhizomatous plants, sometimes epiphytic*.<\/h4>\n<p>(Note that some species in these sections have white or pink flowers)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LOASIBEGONIA\u00a0:\u00a0<em>B. adpressa<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. atroglandulosa<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. duncan-thomasii<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. heterochroma<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. letouzeyi<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. microsperma<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. minuta<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. potamophila<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. prismatocarpa<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. pseudoviola<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. pulcherrima<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. quadrialata<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. salisburyana<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. scapigera<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. schaeferi<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. scutifolia<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>B. staudtii<\/em> : from Guinea to eastern Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Angola.<\/li>\n<li>SCUTOBEGONIA\u00a0:\u00a0<em>B. aggeloptera<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. anisosepala<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. ciliobracteata<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. clypeifolia<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. dewildei<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. erectocaulis<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. erectotricha<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. ferramica<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. hirsutula<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. lacunosa<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. laporteifolia<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. mbangaensis<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. mildbraedii<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. peperomioides<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. scutulum<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. susaniae<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. vankerchklovenii<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. vittariifolia<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. wilksii<\/em>,\u00a0<em>B. zairensis<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>B. zenkeriana<\/em>\u00a0: from C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire to eastern Zaire and the Congo\/Angola border<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nous appellerons Afrique ouest-\u00e9quatoriale, la partie Ouest de l\u2019Afrique intertropicale situ\u00e9e de part et d\u2019autre de l\u2019\u00c9quateur, de la Guin\u00e9e au Nord de l\u2019Angola et le long du fleuve Congo. Cette zone, au relief peu marqu\u00e9, les principaux massifs montagneux \u00e9tant le Mont Nimba (1850 m) \u00e0 l\u2019ouest et le massif de l\u2019Adamaoua (4000 m) [...]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3120,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":60,"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12158,"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions\/12158"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afabego.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}