Chimantaea
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|taxon = Chimantaea
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|type_species = Chimantaea mirabilis
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Chimantaea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44067068#page/442/mode/1up Maguire, Bassett, Steyermark, Julian Alfred. & Wurdack, John Julius. 1957. Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 9: 428-434] descriptions in Latin; key, commentary and type specimen information in English[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40007019 Tropicos, Chimantaea Maguire, Steyerm. & Wurdack ]
This genus[http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Compositae/Chimantaea/ Chimantaea.] The Plant List. is endemic to the Pantepui,Rull, V. (2004). [http://s3.amazonaws.com/publicationslist.org/data/vrull/ref-77/2004%20ESR%20LostW.pdf Biogeography of the 'Lost World': a palaeoecological perspective.] Earth-Science Reviews 67(1), 125-37. a biogeographic province on the Guiana Highlands in Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil.Désamoré, A., et al. (2010). [http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2010/f/pt00009p265.pdf Biogeography of the Lost World (Pantepui region, northeastern South America): insights from bryophytes.] Phytotaxa 9, 254-65. The region is characterized by a pattern of about 50 tepuis, isolated tabletop mountains that arise from the sandstone plateau of the highlands. Tepuis are known for their biodiversity, especially their concentrations of endemic species, and most are still pristine, undisturbed ecosystems.
The genus is almost entirely restricted to the Chimantá Massif, a complex of several of these tepuis in Bolívar, Venezuela. There several species of the genus are dominant members of the higher-elevation shrublands, which are known as paramoid vegetation because of their similarity to the páramos of the Andes.Rull, V. (2004). [http://www.paleodiversitas.org/PDF/98.pdf An evaluation of the Lost World and Vertical Displacement hypotheses in the Chimantá massif, Venezuelan Guayana.] Global Ecology and Biogeography 13(2), 141-48.
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