Name:
Tropical Andes Upper Montane Bog Macrogroup
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
This macrogroup represents all the high-Andean bogs distributed from Venezuela to Bolivia, which are minerotrophic systems directly or indirectly linked to water seeps and springs occurring in flat or depressed terrain. They develop on permanently waterlogged soils where peat forms and is deposited (Histosols). The vegetation is dominated by plants which form dense communities with 100% cover of the soil at no more than 0.2 m high, commonly known as mats or cushions. These communities have a similar composition along their latitudinal distribution in the Andes, and diagnostic species are <i>Distichia muscoides, Distichia filamentosa, Oxychloe andina, Oritrophium limnophilum, Deyeuxia jamesonii, Carex gayana, Castilleja pumila, Lucilia tunariensis, Ourisia muscosa, Scirpus acaulis, Plantago rigida, Plantago tubulosa, Werneria pygmaea, Gentianella primuloides, Gentianella primulifolia, Deyeuxia rigescens, Deyeuxia ovata, Hypsela reniformis, Aa paludosa, Eleocharis tucumanensis, Colobanthus quitensis, Gentiana prostrata, Lysipomia pumila, Myrosmodes paludosa</i>, and <i>Isoetes andicola</i>. Also included in this group are "paramos" occurring in depressions with waterlogged, hydromorphic soils where the herbaceous communities have also scattered shrubs, subshrubs and rosette plants such as <i>Puya</i> spp., <i>Arcytophyllum muticum, Diplostephium</i> spp., <i>Espeletia</i> spp., <i>Monticalia</i> spp., <i>Jamesonia glutinosa</i>, and <i>Sphagnum</i> spp.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40946-{BF8D2B69-C534-4010-866C-4862780D1DFA}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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