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Collector Ollgaard, B.
Number 8178
Collected with Balslev, H.
Country Ecuador
Subpart NAPO
County  
Locality Road Quito-Baeza, 3-4 km W of Laguna de Papallacta (Páramo de Guamaní). Rather recent SW-exposed landslide, dominated by pioneer-vegetation, mainly mosses, liverworts, several Lycopodium spp. and a few low shrubs.
Coordinates 0° 19' S 78° 7' W
Minimum elevation (m) 3550
Maximum elevation (m) 3550
Start date 1976/07/21
End date 1976/07/21
Family Melastomataceae
Identification Miconia salicifolia (Bonpl. ex Naud.) Naud.
Determined by S. S. Renner, 1989
Identification qualifier  
Field notes Voucher specimen. Sterile. Low shrub, less than 1 m high. Seen in other places to several m high with several erect stems making it a very characteristic slender shrub in the transition zone between the montane forest and the páramo.

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