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The Guinean montane forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of West Africa The ecoregion occupies the portions of the Guinea Highlands lying above 600 meters elevation, extending across portions of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire. It includes the Fouta Djallon plateau and the massifs of Ziama, Simandou, Tétini, Béro, Kourandou in Guinea, the Loma Mountains and Tingi Hills in Sierra Leone, the Nimba Range in Guinea, Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire, and the Monts du Toura in Côte d'Ivoire. Mount Bintumani in the Loma Mountains is the highest peak in West Africa west of Mount Cameroon. The next highest peaks in the region are in the Sankan Biriwa massif (1850 meters) in the Tingi Hills. Average rainfall is between 1,600-2400 mm per year and many important rivers have their sources in these mountains. 〔"Guinean montane forests." WWF ecoregion profile. Accessed November 16, 2012 ()〕 ==Flora== These mountains have a distinct plant cover in various phases according to elevation, with up to 35 endemic species including a ''Rhipidoglossum'' orchid found only on Mount Nimba. Common plant types in the humid mountain valleys include ''Uapaca togoensis, Cola lateritia maclaudii, Parinari excelsa, Piptadeniastrum africanum'' and ''Canarium schweinfurthii''. Higher altitudes of the Loma and the Tingi are covered with a savanna of ''Syzygium, Kotschya ochreata, Monechma depauperatum'', and the tree ferns,'' Cyathea subg. Cyathea manniana'' and ''Cyathea dregei.'' Other areas of high prairie are known for Gladiolus, ''Solenostemon monostachyus latericola, Cyanotis longiflora,'' and ''Thesium tenuissimum''. Finally the high gallery forest is dominated by ''Parinari excelsa'' with the tree fern, ''Cyathea camerooniana'', and the bamboo, ''Oxytenanthera abyssinica''. ''Pitcairnia feliciana'', the only species of Bromeliad native outside the Americas, is endemic to the Fouta Jallon.〔"Fouta-Djalon". 'Freshwater Ecoregions of the World. Accessed 30 September 2015. ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guinean montane forests」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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