Ecuador, Zamora-Chinchipe: Road Loja-Zamora 30 km, NE slope pf Cordillera Numbala, Reserva Biológica San Francisco, trail to summit ("Antennes")
-3.97 -79.07
3000 meters
9843 ft
in moist, cloudy páramo vegetation (0.5 m high) dominated by bamboo (Neurolepis), growing abundant in dense, greenish-brown patches on upwright twigs and branches of isolated, 1-2 m high shrubs (mostly Miconia sp., also Clusia sp.)