Equateur

Equateur (ec)

Prov. Azuay : Paramo de Tinajillas and surronding chaparral and forests, 30-50 km. South of Cuenca

fl

W.H. Camp

2236

1945-3-17

11000 -15000

15000

In open paramo. Plants solitary, usually scattered. Lvs shining above, pale-scurfy below. Inflorescence bracts reddish. Corolla pale greenish blue. Small plants often originate in axils of basal lvs. Only very rarely are two mature plants so close that they appear to have come as shoots from ame mother plant.