Chapter 03
Plants
Flora of the Andean forests — from pasture-edge ferns to the orchids of the cloud canopy.
La Honda's plant life spans six Holdridge life zones across an elevation range of nearly two thousand metres, from humid tropical forest at 700 m to lower-montane rain forest near the ridgeline.
The vereda sits in eastern Antioquia's forested hinterland, within a patchwork of pasture, secondary regrowth, riparian corridor and remnant cloud forest. That mosaic is what makes the flora here so rich: a short walk from a stream-bank clearing to the upper slopes traverses habitats that would be separated by hundreds of kilometres in a flatter landscape.
This chapter is organised by family. Each family page introduces the group, its key recognition features and the species confirmed in La Honda. Individual species sheets carry habitat notes, Holdridge zones, conservation status, photographs and the contributors who documented them.
Families
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