Melliferous plant diversity in the forest-savanna transition zone in côte d’ivoire: case of toumodi department
International Journal of Development Research
Melliferous plant diversity in the forest-savanna transition zone in côte d’ivoire: case of toumodi department
Received 18th August, 2020; Received in revised form 22nd September, 2020; Accepted 11th October, 2020; Published online 24th November, 2020
Copyright © 2020, ASSI KAUDJHIS Chimène et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The melliferous flora around three apiaries of 6 to 10 hives in the Department of Toumodi (Côte d’Ivoire) was studied with the help of floristic inventories in the plant formations of the study area. Observations were made within a radius of 1 km around each apiary in 3 villages of Toumodi Department (Akakro-Nzikpli, Bédressou and N'Guessankro). The melliferous flora is composed of 157 species in 127 genera and 42 families. The Fabaceae, with 38 species (24.20%) is the best represented. Lianas with 40 species (25.48%) and Microphanerophytes (52.23%) are the most predominant melliferous plants in the study area. They contain plants that flower during the rainy season (87 species, i.e. 55.41%), the dry season (51 species, i.e. 32.48%) and the dry and wet months (19 species, 12.10%). Nectariferous plants are the most represented (90 species, 57.32%), followed by nectaro-polliniferous species (47 species, 29.94%) and polliniferous species (20 species, 12.74%).
