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Fotografía © María Rosa de la Concha.
Cascada Sol (cascadas Kongou), Parque Nacional Ivindo | Sun waterfall (Kongou Falls), Ivindo National Park | Cascade Soleil (Chutes du Kongou), Parc National du Ivindo.

Fotografía © María Rosa de la Concha.
Última día, por la mañana, antes de partir río arriba, otra vez hacia la "civilización" :-)

Fotografía © María Rosa de la Concha.

...bajada de 3 horas por el río Ivindo con esta "barcaza" a motor :-) para llegar al campamento, al pié de las cascasdas.
Fotografía © María Rosa de la Concha.

Fotografía © María Rosa de la Concha.
Mussa & Meson, Lopé.

Fotografía © María Rosa de la Concha.
Preparándonos después de comer, antes de hacer la primera excursión por la tarde.

Fotografía © María Rosa de la Concha & Javier Mayordomo.
Mirad, si hasta tenemos guarda personal... :-)

Fotografía © María Rosa de la Concha.
Sabana de La Lopé.

el viaje se acaba...

Fotografía © María Rosa de la Concha.
Último día en Libreville y en Gabón.

Fotografía © María Rosa de la Concha.
Sábado por la mañana, últimas horas en Libreville y en Gabón. Visitamos algunos rincones de la ciudad.

Fotografía © María Rosa de la Concha.
Comiendo con los colegas del Arboretum, después de terminar la visita.

P.N. Loango

P.N. Loango

Something pretty special.
The first photo I'm posting without titling it first, but I can't wait a month until I can afford my new computer before posting this.
Actually the special thing is that in this area of southwestern Rwanda this huge epiphytic fern is growing lithophytically on a vertical cliff wall (the photo is angled slightly from below).

This fern is probably native to most of highland tropical subsaharan Africa, south as far as Dondo in Mozambique, north as far as Sudan, west as far as Guinea, but excluding the low-lying Congo basin. In Rwanda these plants even grow in the capital city of Kigali, distantly high up on the old trees that line the old colonial roads. It is generally a high-level epiphyte in dry forest, at altitudes from about 350m up.
I have gone through all the observational/collection records at the GBIF, including under its synonyms P. angolense & P. velutina, and this is actually the only record I know of proving a Rwandan distribution of this species. The countries it is known to be native to are listed as tags to the right of the photograph. I used the GBIF, but also the origins of the original types used to describe it and its synonyms (Kew, Aluka), and also the observational records in Kew's Flora Zambesiaca.
In these countries a distribution is to be expected, but I can not attest at this time: Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Equatorial Guinea.

Here's the site that helped me to ID this: www.platycerium.co.za/p__elephantotis.htm

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