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Río Lagarto Cocha. 2 hours upstream from Río Aguarico, from Redondo Cocha to Gamitana Cocha. Black water in undated forest.

Quebrada de la Río Blanco. Páramo de la Cooperativo Cotopilalau.

Road Puyo - Macas (under construction), 31 km from Puyo. Rain forest.

Road Cuenca - Loja, 68 km S of Cuenca. Rather dry subparamo, with boggy depression protruding, dry rocks and scrub.

New road Loja-Saraguro, km 17.

Río Borja, 1 km. Swamp forest.

NE side of Cerro Sumaco. Virgin cloud forest on steep slopes.

Santa Barbara, border between the provinces Carchi and Napo, steep slope with disturbed montane forest on upper parts and cattle grazed humid meadow below.

Vindekilde

Møns klint

Breslau.

El Progreso along road between Salinas and Guayaquil. Dry shrubby vegetation and pastureland.

Tornby klitplantage

Río Cuyabeno. Collections made from the canoe along the riverside. From 2 hours upstream from the outlet in Río Aguarico to Puerto Bolívar.

Crater of Pululahua. Remnants of cloud forest, 500 m NW of old pass to the crater.

Summit of road Saraguro-Tenta.

Road Tulcán - Maldonado, on SW slopes of Volcán Chiles, approx. 43 km from Tulcán. Boggy depression in páramo, with Espeletia, Loricaria, cushion plants, bunch grasses and mosses.

Parque Nacional Cotopaxi, faldas N de Volcán Cotopaxi. Pajonal. Cuadrante no. 5.

5 km along the road from Otavalo towards Laguna Mojanda. Road banks.

Sevilla de Oro, approx. 10 km NNE of the village. Páramo at the timberline, regularly burnt off, and scrub on W-exposed slopes.

W of pass at km 6 Vilcabamba - Yangana. Dry area, grazed, with scattered scrubs, some erosion.

Parque Nacional Cotopaxi, faldas N de Volcán Cotopaxi. Pajonal.

Jima - San Miguel de Cuyes, km 17.2. Páramos de Palcurco. Forest island or remnant in grass páramo.

10 km NW of Cuenca. Part of Cajas. Mountain forest at Laguna.

Río Santiago at Concepción. Rain forest, dominated of palms, often inundated.

Cotopaxi National Park, Limpiopungo. Flat plain NW of Cotopaxi cone, dominated by lichens and low herbaceous vegetation.

Cuyuja. Pastures on slopes with large epiphyte covered trees and remnants of montane forest.

About 3 km E of Frailejón between Cruce Cordillera on the Pan American Highway and El Carmelo. Primary elfin forest and cloud forest.

Road Baeza - Tena, c. 23 km from Baeza. Montane forest on level terrain, partly on wet ground, partly deforested.

Lagunas de Cuyabeno. Periodically flooded lake forest on the SW part of the first lake.

Røsnæs

Southwestern slopes of the volcano Cotacachi. Paramo and rocky slopes with lava.

Gaoua

La Palma (app. 10 km SW of Loja). Montane forest remnants.

2nd division, Lubok Antu District, river Delok. Secondary forest near Nanga Sumpa.

Road Angamarca - El Corazón. Ravine with high montane forest, rather dry type.

Cordillera de los Llanganates. Loma 3 km SW of Cerro Hermoso. Polylepis forest and vertical rocks.

Río Curaray. Flood plain forest and riverside forest about 10 km upstream from the military camp.

Canal Zone: Barro Colorado Island.

Parque Nacional Podocarpus. New rd. Loja - Zamora, E. of the pass. Montane forest, disturbed.

Road Ibarra - Cayambe. Quebrada 10 km NW of Olmedo, Ceja andina.

At Lita, along roads and railway, mostly lightopen.

Río Eno near San Pablo at Río Aguarico.

Shrub near the river on the road from Cuenca to Cajas. Mountain forest.

Río Yasuni ca 12 km upstream from entrance into Río Napo. Tropical rainforest, disturbed only by slight lumbering activity. Etnobotanical information by Sr. Flavio Cabrera and his wife who lives ca 4 km upstream from the Río Yasuni - Río Napo junction.

Road Loja-Catamayo, in the Catamayo valley.

Nilghiri Mountains

Road Loja - Zamora, km 17. Roadsides and steep slopes with montane forest.

Río Yasuní, Charapillo. Sandbank vegetation.

Estación Padmi, Universidad Nacional de Loja, a 4 km de Los Encuentros en la carretera Zamora-Gualaquiza