Resurvey of vascular plants and soil arthropods on the summit of Mount Corazón (Andes of Ecuador) after 140 years

Figures & data

Figure 1. Localization of the study site. a: Superpáramo sky islands (orange and red areas) in Northern Ecuador. b: Detail of Mt. Corazón in the former map. c: Detail of the summit area (satellite image: ©2020 Google Earth)

Table 1. List of the vascular plant species encountered in January 2020 within a 0–80 m distance from the summit of Mt. Corazón (Figure 1c, zone A) and within an 80–160 m distance (zone B). Species collected by Whymper in 1880 are in bold. Voucher numbers refer to P. Sklenář’s collections deposited at QCA

	Zone A 0–80 m from summit	Zone B 80–160 m from summit
Agrostis foliata Hook. f.	+ (PS16022)	+
Arenaria dicranoides Kunth		One plant (PS16016)
Azorella corymbosa (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers.	+	+
Baccharis caespitosa (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers.	+	+
Belloa sp.	One sterile plant
Calamagrostis aurea (Munro ex Wedd.) Hack. ex Sodiro	+ (PS16021)	+ (PS16020, PS16023)
Cerastium floccosum Benth.	Only a few plants	+
Draba aretioides Kunth		+
Draba obovata Benth.	+ (PS16018)	+
Erigeron ecuadoriensis Hieron.	+	+
Eudema nubigena Bonpl.	+ (PS16019)	+
Hypochaeris sessiliflora Kunth	+
Hypochaeris sonchoides Kunth		+
cf. Hypochaeris		One small rosette, excluded from the species count
Lachemilla hispidula (L.M. Perry) Rothm.	+	+
Lachemilla paludicola (Rothm.) Rothm.		One plant growing on a cushion
Loricaria thuyoides (Lam.) Sch. Bip.		One small plant
Lucilia kunthiana (DC.) Zardini	+
Luzula racemosa Desv.	+	Perhaps the most abundant plant
Myrosmodes sp.		One plant growing in a cushion of Werneria humilis
Ourisia muscosa Wedd.		One plant
Pentacalia microdon (Wedd.) Cuatrec.	One small plant
Pernettya prostrata (Cav.) DC.		One plant
Phlegmariurus crassus (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) B.Øllg.		+
Poa cucullata Hack.	+
Senecio canescens (Bonpl.) Cuatrec.	+	+
Senecio culcitioides Sch.Bip.		Two plants
Senecio nivalis (Kunth) Cuatrec.	+	+
Taraxacum sp.	+
Valeriana alypifolia Kunth		Two plants
Valeriana plantaginea Kunth	One plant	Two plants
Werneria nubigena Kunth	+	+
Werneria pygmaea Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.	+	+
Xenophyllum humile (Kunth) V.A. Funk	+	+
Xenophyllum rigidum (Kunth) V.A. Funk		One plant (PS16017)
Species richness	22	28

Figure 2. The summit of Mt Corazón in January 2020, viewed from the south

Figure 3. Clump of Senecio canescens near the summit of Mt. Corazón in January 1986. Photograph taken by P. Moret