Plant Diversity of an Andean Cloud Forest

Based on work spanning a decade, this study of the Maquipucuna area on the western slopes of the Andes discusses the climate, vegetation, ecological relationships, and flora, and emphasizes the importance of the Maquipucuna area as a biological reserve. In addition to the checklist of the flora, which enumerates 1,650 species (including 228 species of pteridophytes and over 200 species of orchids), appendices give information on floristic composition of communities, distribution of epiphytes, and elevational ranges of families and genera. The illustrations include a map, landscapes, and characteristic species.

List of Illustrations

ix

List of Tables

xi

Acknowledgments

xiii

Abstract & Resumen

xvii

Introduction

1

(2)

Climate and Topography

3

(1)

Vegetation

4

(2)

Floristics of Ecuadorian Cloud Forests

6

(4)

Analysis of the Vascular Flora of Maquipucuna

10

(7)

Relationships with Other Floras

17

(9)

Conservational Status of the Maquipucuna Cloud Forests

26

(2)

Circumscription of the Region Covered by the Inventory

28

(1)

Enumeration of Taxa

29

(168)

Pteridophyta

30

(21)

Angiosperms:

Dicots

51

(101)

Monocots

152

(45)

Appendix A. Dominant or conspicuous taxa of secondary and roadside vegetation in the Macquipucuna region, between 1150 and 1500 m

197

(2)

Appendix B. Dominant or abundant taxa of primary cloud forest (lower montane forest), 1700--2000 m

199

(2)

Appendix C. Dominant or abundant taxa of upper montane forest, 2100--2750 m

201

(2)

Appendix D. Dominant and conspicuous taxa in riparion vegetation, 1125--2000 m

203

(2)

Appendix E. Distribution of epiphytes in the Maquipucuna vascular flora

205

(2)

Literature Cited

207

(6)

Plates

213

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Plant Diversity of an Andean Cloud Forest

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