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Atacazo, Km.4,5 on the road from San Juan to Las Antenas. Paramo vegetation.

Beach and road side c. 3 km S of Pacoa (c. 27 km N of Santa Elena) along the coast.

Loja - La Toma (Catamayo) road km 10. Shrubby area with cattle grassing.

Tulcán, "carretera de circunvalación", behind the airport. Farms and pastures with scattered bushes, plants collected on the roadside.

Doi Pah Hom Pok

Páramo de Cajas, W of Cuenca. Along new road, c. 11 km W of pass. Roadside and grassy slope.

Río Mazan, E slopes of Las Cajas. Secondary forest dominated by Weinmannia fagaroides, Escallonia myrtelloides, Myrcianthes and some Lauraceae.

Disturbed rain forest and seconary vegetation along Chical-Pailon-San Marcos trail.

1 km E of pass on Loja-Zamora road

Reserva Faunistica de Cuyabeno north of Laguna Grande. Tropical rain forest on terra firme.

Parque Nacional Podocarpus, S of Loja, above "Centrode información", E of Nudo de Cajanuma. Mountain crest with low scrub and paramo.

Road Loja - Zamora, app. 5 km E of pass on new road. Montane forest.

Parque Nacional Cotopaxi. NW of Limpio Punga.

Reserva Forestal ENDESA, along Río Silanche NE of Pedro Vicente Maldonado. Tall cloud forest.

Forest of La Magdalena (Mandurial), on W-facing slopes just N of Río Guayllabamba, opposite Hda. Conquista, E of Saguangal. Tall montane forest.

San Pablo de los Secoyas. Partly disturbed primary forest along the path to Shushufindi, W-SW of the village.

Parc National du Niokolo Koba. Sample plot site Camp du Lion. Woodland.

Road Pallatanga - Cajabamba, 29-30 km from Pallatanga. Narrow ravine with rivulet. High scrub.

Baños. Steep W-facing hill slope with natural vigorous vegetation. Only a few shrubs and trees.

Parc National du Niokolo Koba. Mt. Assirik. Sample plot site in moist gallery forest.

1-2 km NE-E of Hacienda Pinatura, c. 5 km E of Pintag. Dry rocky lava flow with scattered shrubs and herbs.

Río Cuyabeno. About 3 km upstream from Puerto Bolívar on the rigth margin. Periodically flooded riverside forest.

Cerro Sumaco, upper 100 m of cone. Paramo.

Parque Nacional Podocarpus, trail along Río Bombuscaro SW of Guardería Bombuscaro. Trail banks.

Cordillera de los Llanganates. Northern slope of Loma between Río Muyu and Río Verde Grande, 6 km WNW of Cerro Hermoso. Paramo with clones of Swallenochloa.

Carretera Chillogallo - Chiriboga km 36. Bosque de montaña.

Along trail Saraguro - Yacuambi. Cordillera Condorcillo

Km 40 from El Carmelo on road towards La Bonita, c. 5 km below La Alegría. Primary cloud forest on steep, wet slopes along river.

Jianfengling

Lagunas del Parque Nacional Cajas. Sector Toreadora

Above La Esperanza, 5 km W of El Carmelo on road to Tulcán. Virgin cloud forest on N-facing steep slopes.

Loma de Oro, 10 km al sur de Saraguro. Selva nublado y páramo.

Ordrup Næs

Isla Puná. Campo Alegre to Cauchiche. Xerophytic thickets and dry forest with Ceiba trichistandra. Now overgrown with flowering vines, rather undisturbed.

Vilcabamba - Yangana ca 6 km, W of the road in the pass. Grassy slope.

Cuyabeno Nature Reserve, Laguna Grande. Collections made from canoe in igapó forest.

Road to Intag valley above Apuela. Rocky slopes and montane forest.

Road Tulcán - Maldonado, at the pass, 38 km from Tulcán. Boggy depression in Espeletia páramo, dominated by cushion plants (Plantago rigida, Distichia, Werneria), and adjacent wet slopes.

Mutintz, SE of Makuma, trail to Río Kiritin, ca 3 km SW of village. Mature tall forest and rocky streams.

Ambato.

Parc National du Niokolo Koba. Vicinity of Niokolo Koba camp site.

Celica-Guachanamá. Pastures and hedges.

5 km south of Saraguro, on the Loja - Cuenca road. Information of vernacular name and use: Natívidad Guamán, Saraguro-indian.

Road Guano - Riobamba, km 1 from Guano. Rocky slope with xerophytic vegetation.

Khao Phu - Khao Ya

Parque Nacional Podocarpus, at pass on road Loja-Zamora.

Upstream Río Napo about 10-11 km from Coca. Upland primary forest with many lianas and sparse undergrowth vegetation.

Bombuscara

15 km south of Yangana on the road Loja - Zumba (under construction). Slightly disturbed mountain cloud forest.

Road Loja - Zamora, km 54. Steep clayey slopes with scattered shrub vegetation and dense herb cover.