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Jardín Tropical, sideroad on the right on the road from Esmeraldas to the airport, after the village of San Mateo. Path going through pastures and transitional forest.

Chatwarin at Sungei Padi

Along road Yangana - Cerro Toledo. Secondary, burned paramo.

El Angel - Las Lagunas road km 1.5.

Cuicocha - Apuela road km 28. Disturbed cloud forest.

Reserva Geobotanica Pasochoa. Along trail through the mountain forest, mostly rather shaded.

Doi Tung

14 km south of Yangana on the road under construction from Loja to Zumba. Disturbed cloud forest near the road.

Northern slope of Volcán Chimborazo at Ambato - Guaranda road. Heavily grazed bunch.grass páramo with wet depressions.

Cerro Hermoso, SW ridge of the mountain, transition from the grass/bamboo p·ramo to lower superp·ramo with shrubs of Loricaria spp.

Along road to Hacienda Pinatura (Antisana).

Carretera. Chillogallo - Alluriquin km 62. Corte de la carretera, en selva de montaña.

Along the Rio Nangariza, upstream from the military station of Miazi. On the river bench, inundated when the waterlevel is high.

Along Rio Mamore, downstream from Puerto Varador

Loja - Zamora road, 2-7 km W of the pass. Disturbed montane forest.

Volc. Chimborazo, above the lower Refúgio (4840 m). Loose gravel/sand.

Rd. Loja - Las Achira (Uritusinga), km 10 from Universidad Nacional de Loja. Remnants of 3-5 m tall upper montane rain forest, with Clusia, Podocarpus, and Weinmannia.

Road bank c. 3 km S of Baeza, on road to Tena.

Khao Chum Sak at Hat Yai. Secondary forest from dry to humid location

Road San Miguel (Salcedo) - Puerto Nuevo (Napo) (under construction), 35 km from San Miguel. Bunch grass and cushion-plant paramo.

About 15 km east of Alamor on the road to Celica. Remnants of mountain forest.

Chanduy. Dune areas with scattered shrubs.

Limit of Parque Nacional Podocarpus. Quebrada de León, affluent of Río Bombuscara, S of Zamora. Trail in wet montane forest near house of PREDESUR.

Parc National du Niokolo Koba. Niokolo Koba camp site, at entrance trail towards Mt. Assirik. Woodland.

Páramo de Guamani, app. 5 km W of Paso de la Virgen. In Polylepis-scrub.

Cerro Pasochoa, W slope. Humid primary mountain forest and secondary paramo.

Parque Nacional Podocarpus, S of Loja. Ceja andina above "Centro de Información" E of Nudo de Cajanuma.

Catamayo valley, road Loja-La Toma, km 12 W of pass. Dry scrub with moist forested ravines.

El Carmelo - Santa Bárbara road, c. 5 km from Santa Bárbara. Pasture margins.

Cajas National Park, E flanks of Cerro Amarillo (4451 m a.s.l.), transition from the grass p·ramo of Calamagrostis intermedia and lower superp·ramo formed by shrubs of Loricaria spp. and cushions of Azorella aretioides, and Werneria humilis.

Doi Tiu N Of Nan

Road Patuca-Santiago, km 8,4 from Santiago. Rocky forested ravine.

50 km W. of Nan: W. of Ban Luang.

El Cisne-Zaruma, km 3. Forest remnants and pastures.

At road Baños - Puyo. Near Mera. Roadside.

Gonzanama-Cariamanga km 5

At Palmeras, km. 36 San Juan - Alluriquin. Along trail in partly disturbed forest.

Along road Yangana - Cerro Toledo. Roadside.

Saraguro - Loja road, km 6-8 from Saraguro. Secondary scrub along road.

Catamayo Valley. Rd. towards Chuquiribamba. Xeric vegetation.

Trail Chical-Pailón. Secondary forest between pastures.

15 km S of Loja on road to Vilcabamba. Steep, dry slope with grass and shrubs.

Altos de Pacora

Road Patuca-Santiago, km 23 from Santiago. Tall forest on ridge.

Salinas - San Lorenzo, 15 km from Panamericana, at crossing of railway

Km 33.4 Zumbagua - Latacunga

General Plaza (Limón) - Gualaceo road, km 51-54 fromLimón. Cloud forest and shrubby, rocky slopes along the road.

Road Quito-Baeza, along take-off road to telecommunication antenna in the pass (Páramo de Guamaní). Steep rocky, S-exposed slope with shallow soil, with Chuquiragua, Loricaria, Diplostephium and mosses.

Ton Pliew waterfall. Evergreen forest along stream.

Parque Nat. Sine Saloum. Isle Doudiarène