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 the premontane-to-lower-montane cloud-forest belt of the eastern Antioquian Andes, climbing from around 1,350 m on the lower slopes to 2,700 m at the upper ridge.
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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