FLORA OF THE GUAYANA HIGHLAND: ENDEMICITY OF THE GENERIC FLORA OF THE SUMMITS OF THE VENEZUELA TEPUIS

• Published in: TAXON
• Main Author: Steyermark, Julian A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1979
• Subjects: Plant Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1219557; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.2307%2F1219557; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2307/1219557

Summary The summit flora of the table mountains of Venezuela would appear to be represented by a relatively small endemic generic element with an intermixture of nonendemic generic elements, originating and immigrating centripetally at different times and from different dispersals or origins (West Gondwanaland‐American, Australasian/Malaysian‐American, Australasia‐Antarctica‐American), the whole modified by evolution and differentiation on newly available areas of the table mountains during their erosional history and derivation from lowland peripheral sources during Pleistocene and post‐Pleistocene times.