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Montalvo, within the military camp. Fields, hedgerows, and lawns with small ditches.

Valle Vicioso E of Volcán Cotopaxi. Paramo. Humid plain with seeping water and adjacent slopes with bunchgrass paramo.

Road Coca - Auca oilfields, 3 km along the road to Yucca. Rain forest.

S side of Cerro Sumaco, 100-200 m S of the main crater. Ravines in paramo with steep rocks and seepages.

Road Babahoyo - Guayaquil, near Yaguachi Nuevo. Forest remnants in swamp.

Isla Puná. Trail Puná Vieja - Campo Alegre, at about three hours walk. Sample plot area. Deciduous dry forest. Vernacular names by E. Montero Ch., Puná Nueva if not otherwise indicated.

Road c. 10 km NE of Alao, at Cuspipaccha. Boggy paramo and steep, open mossy slope.

Road Tulcán-Maldonado, at the base of Volcán Chiles, 34-36 km from Tulcán. small lakes (Lagunas Verdes) and sloping lake shores with rocks and boulders, dominated by mosses, Lycopodium spp. and cushion plants. Few shrubs and bunch grasses.

Río Cuyabeno. Collections along the riverside on both sides of the river from the mouth and two hours upstream.

Coca. Rain forest in the surroundings of the junction Río Coca - Río Napo.

Llanganati. North facing slope towards the Río Golpe, just north of Chosa Aucacocha. Spring-fed lake, just below forest limit, surrounded by elfin forest.

Road Pichig - Fierro Urco, ca. km 10. Paramo and upper montane forest.

Southern shore of Río Napo a few km below Itaya. Garden of native house and surrounding tropical rainforest. Etnobotanic information given by Sr. Antonio Coquinche and translated by licenciado Santos Dea from Pompeya mission.

Road Baeza - Lago Agrio, 140 km from Lago Agrio, in the pass S of Río Salado. Montane forest at the pipeline, partly deforested and disturbed.

Crater of Pululahoa, c. 20 km N of Quito. Steep slopes in cloud forest.

N side of Cerro Sumaco, upper part of the loma NW of campsite. Humid paramo in furrow like quebradas dominated by Blechnum, Elaphoglossum and Senecio andicola. The furrow sometimes totally covered by mosses.

Quito, near Mariscal Sucre Airport. Waste areas.

Road Santa Susana de Chiviasa-Panecillo, km 3-4. Dense scrubby, light-open forest on siliceous and kaolinitic rocks.

Above La Esperenza, 5 km W of El Carmelo on road to Tulcán. Virgin cloud forest, dominated by Clusia.

Parque Nacional Podocarpus, S of Loja. Wet montane forest at the "Centro de Información" E of Nudo de Cajanuma.

Carretera Quito-Puerto Quito, km 113, 10 km al Norte de la carretera principal, bosque virgen y alrededores de la reserva.

Km 89 S of Cuenca on Pan American Highway. Open vegetation with scattered trees and shrubs, very dry.

Lorocachi. Pica a Lagatococha a 1 hora siguiendo margen derecha del Río Curaray, sector sur del campamento militar.

Disbjerg

Guagra Urcu, the pass between Río Borja and Río Suno. Montane forest.

Along Río Blanco, W of Otavalo. Population of Passiflora in dry montane forest.

Puento Santana.

Montana Woma.

2 km south of Saraguro. Information of vernacular name and use: Natívidad Guamán, Saraguro-indian.

Sigsig. Road Sigsig - Gima. Dry subparamo with low shrubs and herbs.

Road Loja - Zamora, km 24-25. Steep rocky slopes, covered with scrub.

Lagunas de Cuyabeno. Path going in the direction E from the tourist house. Primary forest on elevated ground.

Valle Vicioso E of Volcán Cotopaxi and N of Mt. Quilindaña. Wet parts in grazed páramo and steep rocky slopes in bunch-gras-páramo.

Road Chillogallo - Santo Domingo, below Chiriboga. Montane forest on steep slopes.

Ravine 5 km NW of Borja. Montane forest.

Ind. Orient

Rd. Loja - Saraguro, km 30. La Cotradia. Upper montane rain forest, moderately disturbed by selective logging.

La Esperanza, 5 km W of El Carmelo on road to Tulcán. Hedgerows and pasture margins.

Lorocachi. About 5 km S-SW of the military camp. Wet primary forest.

Cordillera de los Llanganatis. NE side of Laguna Encantada. Espeletia forest at the lower slope of Cerro Negro.

Volcán Cayambe, northern slope near the radiostation. Strongly exposed cushion paramo.

Shuinia Nait, small mountain ridge c. 8 km SE of Misión Bomboiza. Tropical rain forest.

The Yasuní National Park. Liana diversity plot no. 2, dry ridgetop.

Ravnsholt Skov

Road Pifo - Papallacta, 3 km W of Paso de la Virgen. Grass-paramo, swamp and Polylepis-forest.

The Yasuní National Park. Liana diversity plot no. 1, humid ridge-side

Río Bobonaza. Rain forest on river bank, and secondary forest around houses between Huagracachi and Cachitama, below Montalvo.

San Pablo de los Secoyas. Cultivated and semicultivated areas in and near the village.

Río Lagarto Cocha, near Redondo Cocha and Imuya Cocha. 2 hours in canoe from Río Aguarico. Flooded forest. Black water. Water level very high.

On the road Patate - Triunfo. Slightly disturbed upper andean forest with Oreopanax, Weinmannia, Hedyosmum, and Miconia.