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unusual facts about Montane forest



Antrophyum mannianum

Antrophyum mannianum is a species of the genus Antrophyum (fern family Vittariaceae) occurring in the African rain forest and montane forest of East Africa and the Albertine Rift.

Bill Gates' flower fly

Bill Gates' flower fly (Eristalis gatesi) is a flower fly found only in Costa Rican high montane cloud forests and named after Bill Gates.

Cherry Creek Rockshelter

The park and archaeological site are located within the northern reaches of the Black Forest, a relatively isolated area of montane forest surrounded by drier grasslands.

Grizzled giant squirrel

The grizzled giant squirrel (Ratufa macroura) is a large tree squirrel in the genus Ratufa found in the highlands of the Central and Uva provinces of Sri Lanka, and in patches of riparian forest along the Kaveri River and in the hill forests in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala states of southern India.

Hose's palm civet

There have been very few field sightings of the species, and these have been mainly from lower montane forest and mature mixed dipterocarp forest.

Oleaceae

The Oleaceae are important components of tropical forests ranging from low-lying dry forest to montane Cloud forest.


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Buddleja ibarrensis

Buddleja ibarrensis is an endangered species endemic to a small area of Ecuador in the vicinity of Ibarra in subtropical or tropical moist montane forest at an elevation of 2,200 m threatened by deforestation.

Buddleja longifolia

Buddleja longifolia is a species now restricted to remnants of montane forest in Loja, Ecuador, and northern Peru at altitudes of 2100 – 2600 m.

Greater glider

Distribution levels are higher in regions of montane forest containing Manna Gum (E. viminalis) and Mountain Gum (E. dalrympleana, E. obliqua).

Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve

The reserve contains a stand of rare dry type montane to sub-montane forest and is the only forest of its type left on the heavily populated Mambilla plateau.

Paramillo Tapaculo

It is restricted to a narrow swath of treeline vegetation (scrub, stunted trees and Polylepis woodland) situated between montane forest and Páramo grasslands that is often just hundreds of meters wide.

Plushcap

Plushcaps prefer to live in montane forest or secondary woodland by Chusquea bamboo which they use to find food.

Shimukappu

Shimukappu is the location of a new nature reserve, called the Horoka Tomamu Montane Forest, established in 2010, the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity.