unidentified plant from Ecuador

[Thomas Lammers]

>At 12:47 PM 7/20/00 +0200, Torbjørn Ekrem wrote:


>>Dear all
>>Does any of you recognize this plant?


>Is it perhaps a species of Espeletia (Asteraceae)?  The genus comprises 
>about 80 spp. in the paramos of South America.

Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and 
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
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