[ EPIPHYTE STUDY IN THE ORIENTAL REGION OF THE KIVU LAKE, ESPECIALLY LWIRO AREA AND HIS AROUND]

Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. 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. ABSTRACT: This study has an objective to contribute at a study of the epiphytic plants in the eastern region of the Kivu Lake preciously in LWIRO area, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The priority contribution was to make a list or to inventory the epiphytic plants and to elucidate some ecologic data which are been relevant at some simple observations. The phytosociologic and opportunist methods was been done to realize this study. This study stand out that 61 species split up into 34 families. The floristic analysis has show us the dominance of grass (57, 37%), the phanérophytes plants (40, 98%), the species of arbustive savanna (32, 78%), but also accidentals epiphytes (31, 14%). The frequency at Erythrina abissinica species was been the most important (0.3846) and Pyrosia shimperi was been the most species frequent on all phorophytes species (0.2197) and was been again the most frequent species on Erythrina abissinica (0.1538),the characteristic phorophyte. The altitudinal frequency shows large representativity between 1900m and 2000m. The similarity was weak and as for at th