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Moist Puna Cliff, Scree & Rock Vegetation Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Moist Puna Cliff, Scree & Rock Vegetation Macrogroup
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: The macrogroup represents various types of discontinuous communities developed on rock outcrops or rocky colluvium in locations across the Andean plateau or Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia, above 3000 m elevation and dominated by rosulate spiny bromeliads, small xeromorphic ferns, various pulvinate or prostrate suffruticose plants, and globular or shrubby cacti. Characteristic genera and species include <i>Puya, Pitcairnia, Echinopsis, Echeveria, Peperomia, Cheilanthes, Notholaena, Astrolepis sinuata</i>, and <i>Senecio rufescens, Saxifraga magellanica, Lobivia cespitosa, Woodsia montevidensis</i> at higher elevations. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:41083-{0BF983CB-6A14-42EF-9277-2D7CF01B8FCC}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 17-Apr-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.886546 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: M856
  Scientific: Moist Puna Cliff, Scree & Rock Vegetation Macrogroup