Chimantaea
| Chimantaea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Subfamily: | Wunderlichioideae |
| Tribe: | Wunderlichieae |
| Genus: | Chimantaea Maguire, Steyerm. & Wurdack |
| Type species | |
| Chimantaea mirabilis Maguire, Steyerm. & Wurdack
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Chimantaea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[1][2]
This genus[3] is endemic to the Pantepui,[4] a biogeographic province on the Guiana Highlands in Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil.[5] The region is characterized by a pattern of about 50 tepuis, isolated tabletop mountains that arise from the sandstone plateau of the highlands.[5] Tepuis are known for their biodiversity, especially their concentrations of endemic species, and most are still pristine, undisturbed ecosystems.[5] The genus is almost entirely restricted to the Chimantá Massif, a complex of several of these tepuis in Bolívar, Venezuela.[4] There several species of the genus are dominant members of the higher-elevation shrublands, which are known as paramoid vegetation because of their similarity to the páramos of the Andes.[6]
- Species
All the species are endemic to Venezuela.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ Maguire, Bassett, Steyermark, Julian Alfred. & Wurdack, John Julius. 1957. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 9: 428-434 descriptions in Latin; key, commentary and type specimen information in English
- ^ Tropicos, Chimantaea Maguire, Steyerm. & Wurdack
- ^ Chimantaea. The Plant List.
- ^ a b Rull, V. (2004). Biogeography of the 'Lost World': a palaeoecological perspective. Earth-Science Reviews 67(1), 125-37.
- ^ a b c Désamoré, A., et al. (2010). Biogeography of the Lost World (Pantepui region, northeastern South America): insights from bryophytes. Phytotaxa 9, 254-65.
- ^ Rull, V. (2004). An evaluation of the Lost World and Vertical Displacement hypotheses in the Chimantá massif, Venezuelan Guayana. Global Ecology and Biogeography 13(2), 141-48.
- ^ Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Archived 2014-11-13 at archive.today
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