Hello Here are some more from the cloud forest or higher. For the bat pollinated flower (067 in the previous post) was found another photo (02670), it looks indeed like a climber Many thanks Dion
2614 really really looks like a NÃspero (Loquat) but if so, what is it doing up there? Was that someone's field or farm? 2670, of the bat-pollination, is most likely a Monopyle of some sort (I found my book!) 0147 - I want to say Werneria, but the leaves are not quite right... Is it from the Paramo (above the treeline)? 1426 is weird and wonderful, and I want some for my yard. I can tell from the Frailejones in the background that it's a Paramo plant, which accounts for that odd leaf shape, and if it didn't have flowers I'd think it was Equisetum. Maybe someone else knows....
Hello Thanks for the feedback. No. 0147 was found at about 3300m. 02617 was just below the paramo, descending for the cloud forest, it wasn't in a property, there were many scattered such trees. 01426 seems to an umbellifer, if so that would narrow down the genera, no?
Well, umbellifers (as a flower type) occur in at least 50 genera down here; you've got to remember that you were hiking in one of the most biodiverse areas in the world. I would be really really hesitant to think that that plant is in the Apiaceae, due to the really unique leaf shape of this plant, and the generally feathered leaf types of the Apiaceae.... I'm really curious about it now.
Here's a question: did you see those umbell flowers in that area growing without those weird tubular leaves? Or were they always associated with them? If they ever had a different foliage type, what did that look like?
One tends to think in terms one's own flora...you are right! I am attaching a crop of the original showing the "umbel" and the tubular leaves are one plant. I had information that the other plant was indeed a Miconia in Melastomataceae - many thanks!
