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Cantutas in Taquile Island, Lake Titicaca, Peru.. Cantua buxifolia, (/ ˈ k æ n tj u ə b ʌ k s ɪ ˈ f oʊ l i ə /, Hispanicized spellings cantuta, cantu), known as qantu, qantus or qantuta (Quechua, [1]) is a flowering plant found in the high valleys of the Yungas of the Andes mountains in western South America.
Flora of the Andes. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. N. Flora of the northwestern Andean montane forests (5 P) P.
The Andes Mountains, ... About 30,000 species of vascular plants live in the Andes, ... is found widely in the Andes as far south as Bolivia.
The Tropical Andes is an area of rich biodiversity. This location contains about 45,000 plant species of which 20,000 are endemic. There are over 3,000 vertebrate species with about 1,500 endemics. Besides plants and vertebrates, 1,666 bird species, 479 reptile species, and 830 amphibian species reside in the Tropical Andes.
Grass páramos cover large areas of mountain ranges, while others are limited to small areas on slopes and summits of very high mountains. [13] The term páramo is sometimes used to refer to this specific type. It has continuous vegetation and plant cover with a "yellowish to olive–brown" look due to the combination of dead and living grasses ...
The puna grassland ecoregion, part of the Andean montane grasslands and shrublands biome, is found in the central Andes Mountains of South America. It is considered one of the eight Natural Regions in Peru, [1] but extends south, across Chile, Bolivia, and western northwest Argentina. The term puna encompasses diverse ecosystems of the high ...
The fauna of the Andes, a mountain range in South America, is large and diverse. As well as a huge variety of flora , the Andes contain many different animal species. With almost 1,000 species, of which roughly 2/3 are endemic to the region, the Andes are the most important region in the world for amphibians . [ 2 ]
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]