Chimantaea
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Chimantaea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[1][2]
Chimantaea | |
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Scientific classification | |
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 |
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]
- Chimantaea acopanensis
- Chimantaea cinerea
- Chimantaea eriocephala
- Chimantaea espeletoidea
- Chimantaea huberi
- Chimantaea humilis
- Chimantaea lanocaulis
- Chimantaea mirabilis
- Chimantaea rupicola