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  2. Tropical Andes - Wikipedia

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    The Tropical Andes are a biodiversity hotspot named the "global epicentre of biodiversity" according to the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund. [citation needed] The Tropical Andes is an area of rich biodiversity. This location contains about 45,000 plant species of which 20,000 are endemic.

  3. Ourisia pulchella - Wikipedia

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    Ourisia pulchella is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to high-elevation habitats in the altiplano and puna of the Tropical Andes mountains of southern Peru and northwestern Bolivia. Hugh Algernon Weddell described O. pulchella in 1860.

  4. Polylepis - Wikipedia

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    Polylepis is a genus comprising 28 recognised shrub and tree species, [1] that are endemic to the mid- and high-elevation regions of the tropical Andes. [2] This group is unique in the rose family in that it is predominantly wind-pollinated. They are usually gnarled in shape, but in certain areas some trees are 15–20 m tall and have 2 m-thick ...

  5. Ourisia chamaedrifolia - Wikipedia

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    Ourisia chamaedrifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to páramo habitats in the Tropical Andes mountains of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. George Bentham described O. chamaedrifolia in 1846.

  6. Puya raimondii - Wikipedia

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    P. raimondii is native to the Andes of Bolivia and Peru, usually between 2,400–4,200 m (7,900–13,800 ft) of elevation, but with a few instances of plants growing at elevations as high as 4,460 m (14,630 ft). [11] The species grows on both rocky and shrubby slopes in the wet Páramo, tropical montane steppe, and the humid montane forest. [10]

  7. Ourisia cotapatensis - Wikipedia

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    Ourisia cotapatensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to high-elevation habitats in the Tropical Andes mountains of the La Paz Department in Bolivia. Heidi Meudt and Stephan Georg Beck described O. cotapatensis in 2003.

  8. Páramo - Wikipedia

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    Páramo in Colombia. Páramo (Spanish pronunciation:) may refer to a variety of alpine tundra ecosystems located in the Andes Mountain Range, South America. Some ecologists describe the páramo broadly as "all high, tropical, montane vegetation above the continuous timberline". [1]

  9. Andes - Wikipedia

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    It is between 4,500 and 4,800 m (14,764 and 15,748 ft) in the tropical Ecuadorian, Colombian, Venezuelan, and northern Peruvian Andes, rising to 4,800–5,200 m (15,748–17,060 ft) in the drier mountains of southern Peru and northern Chile south to about 30°S before descending to 4,500 m (14,760 ft) on Aconcagua at 32°S, 2,000 m (6,600 ft ...

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