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Rare & Unusual Plants of the Cordillera Azul

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Loreto & San Martín, PERUPARQUE NACIONAL CORDILLERA AZUL

Robin Foster, Hamilton Beltrán, Bil AlversonPhotos by R. B. Foster & T. Wachter. Produced by: R. B. Foster, T. Theim, H. Betz, M. R. Metz, T. Wachter, with support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation.© Environmental & Conservation Programs, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL 60605 USA. [[email protected]] Rapid Color Guide #117 version 1.1

1 Upper Pisqui River 2 Steep mountains above 2000 m 3 Multiple landslidescaused by earthquake

4 Pisqui Floodplain Camp 5 Giant swamp at 1500m elevation 6 Dwarf forest on acidsoils

7 Dwarf forest

8 Helipad at the AltoPauya Camp

9 The "Lost World" 10 Pisqui Ridgecrest Camp

11 Pristine lake in the "lost world" 12 The "Vivians" or "Zig-zags"

13 Nuevo Edén, native Shipibo community

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Parque Nacional Cordillera Azul, Loreto/San Martín, PERURare & Unusual Plants of the Cordillera Azul

Robin Foster, Hamilton Beltrán, Bil AlversonPhotos by R. B. Foster & T. Wachter. Produced by: R. B. Foster, T. Theim, H. Betz, M. R. Metz, T. Wachter, with support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation.© Environmental & Conservation Programs, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL 60605 USA. [[email protected]] Rapid Color Guide #117 version 1.1

21 New speciesARECACEAE Wettinia

22 New genus for PeruASTERACEAE Stenopadus

23 New to PeruBROMELIACEAE Guzmania globosa

24 New speciesCYCADACEAE Zamia

25 New speciesFABACEAE Parkia

26 Rarely seenERICACEAE Semiramisia speciosa

27 New speciesGNETACEAE Gnetum

28 New to PeruGROSSULARI. Phyllonoma ruscifolia

29 Rarely seen, maybe newMAGNOLIACEAE Talauma

30 Rarely seenMELASTOMAT. Conostegia inusitata

31 Rarely seenOCHNACEAE Godoya obovata

32 New speciesORCHIDACEAE Catasetum

33 New speciesPASSIFLORACEAE Dilkea

34 Second collection in PeruRUBIACEAE Pimentelia glomerata

35 New to PeruRUBIACEAE Retiniphyllum

36 Rarely seenTILIACEAE Pentaplaris davidsmithii

37 Rarely seenTRIURIDACEAE Sciaphila purpurea

38 In danger of extinctionPTERID. Platycerium andinum

39 New speciesPTERIDOPHYTA Solanopteris

40 Only record was in 1872PTERID. Schizaea poeppigiana

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