| Locality | (Some maps show this in Pichincha). 9 km E of (11 km by road from) Patricia Pilar (1 km to the E of Escuela Centinelas, a minute settlement forest cleared in 1969), 58 km ENE of Quevedo, on PanAm Highway to Santo Domingo de los Colorados. Virgin fog, moss-and-epiphyte-enshrouded wet tropical rain forest on steep, well drained slopes and ridges, with buttresed trees to 50-60 m, many medium and small palms and Cyclanthaceae in understory. Cretaceous volcanic diabasic bedrock? Soil clayey?. |