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Road Chillogallo - Chiriboga. Western slope with outcropping rocks and montane forest.

Río Aguarico, 40 km downstream from San Pablo de los Secoyas. Small island and sandbank. Riverside forest.

Hacienda Pimán, between Ibarra and Chota on the abandoned Pan American Highway. Steep rock, very dry slope.

Road Tulcán-Maldonado, 53 km from Tulcán. Exposed ridge in cloud forest with large trees and dense undergrowth of orchids, Chusquea and Gleichenia.

Cerro de Arcos W of road Manu - Zaruma. 3250 - 3600 m.

Cerro Rumiñahui. Paramo scrub.

Parque Nacional Cotopaxi. Carretera de entrada 3 km del Panamericana. Plantatión de pino y subpáramo.

Camino Santa Barbara - La Bonita km 20-22. Bosque montano humedo.

Cayabeno Nature Reserve, Laguna Grande. Collections made from canoe.

Road Loja - La Toma. Secondary montane scrub and paramo vegetation.

Baños, 4 km on the road to Puyo. 0-3 km E of the road tunnel, along the roadside at a S-facing hill slope.

Tena rain forest.

Volcán Pichincha, Cerro Ventanillas.

Quevedo - Latacunga road. Steep rocky slopes along Río Pilaló with scattered trees. Subtropical rain forest on fat clay.

Carihuahuasco, above Mashahuasca, 4400-4600 m.

Road Olmedo - Laguna San Marcos, E of the pass. Scrub paramo dominated by Hypericum laricifolium, Cortaderia and Neurolepis.

Road Loja - Zamora, 1 km W of the pass (km 13). Dry grass slopes, shrubby mountain slopes and elfin forest.

Vicinity of Lago Llanchama near Río Nanay.

Parque Nacional Podocarpus. Above Nudo de Cajanuma. Mirador, above 'Centro de Informacion'.

Along new road app. 7 km S of road to Nabon. Scrub-páramo, grass-páramo and páramo-swamp.

Río Wai si ayá. 1.5-2 km upriver from the outlet in Río Aguarico. Primary forest intermediate between varzea and upland forest.

1 km NW of Chanduy towards Atahualpa. Savanna plain with gallery scrub.

Vicinity of Mercadillo, at El Retiro. Fragments of montane rain forest along ravines. (Coordinates approximate).

The Yasuní National Park, terra firme area, liana projekt plot no. 1.

Yasuni Scientific Research Station. Río Tiputini between bridge and Río Tivacuno inlet. Riverside.

Loja - Saraguro, km 25, turnoff towards Buenavista and Taquil. Roadside and fences.

Calderon, N of Quito. Dry slopes.

Chical, path leading to El Pablo.Pastures and forest remnants.

Råbjerg Mose

Lorocachi. 2 km upriver Río Curaray from Lorocachi on the opposite side of the military camp. Primary forest.

Taisha. Río Guambime. Riverside forest.

San Pablo de los Secoyas. Path going in the direction W-SW. Very wet type of primary forest.

Páramo de Tinajillas, km 23-28 from Cumbe on road to Loja. Grass páramo and virgin elfin forest.

Paramo de Guamani. Small peak c. 6 km south of Paso de la Virgen. Paramo.

Km 67 S of Cuenca on Pan American Highway. Xerophytic scrub, 2-3 m high, intermingled with meadows and dryer grass land.

In the Colorado community "Congoma Grande" at km. 23 on the Santa Domingo - Puerto Limón road. Strongly disturbed forest.

Road El Paraiso - Saguangal, 11 km from El Paraiso. Tall montane rain forest on steep slope, with Guadua. Soil temperature 21° C.

Valley of Guayallabamba. Dry interandean valley dominated by Cactaceae and Acacia.

San Pablo de los Secoyas. Primary forest on non flooded but swampy ground, 2-5 km W-SW of the village.

Old road Quito - Santo Domingo, near San Juan.

Comunidad Rumipata. Pasture in paramo.

Lagunas de Cuyabeno. Open, partly cleared, priodically flooded forest on the SW part of the first lake.

Ibarra, 0-2 km along the road towards Apacocha. Roadbanks.

Río Cayapa, Zapallo Grande. 2 km upriver Río Zapallo Grande. From the right bank a trail led into the forest. Along the trail disturbed forest and slash and burn fields was passed.

Río Onzolé, upstream from San Francisco de Onzolé. Forested hill.

Río Yasuní. Riverbanks around Garza Coche.

Laguna Jatuncocha ca 60 km south west of Nueva Roca fuerte. Island with terra firme and blackwater "pantano" swamp forest. Etnobotanical information by Sr. Abel Greja and Sra. de Flavio Cabrera.

Downstream Río Cuyabeno from Laguna de Cuyabeno to Puerto Bolívar. Riverside forest.

7 km W of Ambato, along the Río Ambato. Steep, N-facing dry slope, dominated by cacti, agaves and bromeliades.

Río Cuyabeno. About 2 km upstream from Puerto Bolívar on the right margin. Periodically flooded riverside.