By Bernardo Gut
This ebook is a consultant to the local timber and nearly ninety five% of the brought arboreal species of Argentine and Chilean Patagonia. Introductory chapters express a survey of what is called 'Patagonia', besides as of the geology, weather, soils, and plants of Southern South the US. Keys in line with vegetative characters and richly illustrated descriptions of greater than one hundred seventy species shape the middle of the handbook. those chapters are by way of concise entries on afforestations, city bushes, and plantations of fruit bushes in climatic enclaves. popular specialists describe an important nationwide Parks of either Argentine and Chilean Patagonia. The final bankruptcy is dedicated to Carl Skottsberg and his amazing excursion via Patagonia 100 years in the past.
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81: Subantarctic tundra Distribution: Tierra del Fuego and subantarctic islands. ; range of variation: 6° C; 700–1000 mm. Elevation: 0–1500 m. 82: High altitude vegetation of the Andes without further differentiations [approximately equivalent to Roig’s unities 20 (high Andean tundra) and 21 (tundra of Empetrum rubrum, above all south of latitude 42° S] Distribution: High mountains of the Andes. Climate: Differs depending on latitude and altitude. Elevation: 600–1500 m. 86: Glaciers and snow fields 87: Gallery-forests and other types of vegetation along rivers, in otherwise largely or completely treeless areas [hygrophilous or riparian vegetation, after Roig] In 51: Salix humboldtiana.
86: Glaciers and snow fields 87: Gallery-forests and other types of vegetation along rivers, in otherwise largely or completely treeless areas [hygrophilous or riparian vegetation, after Roig] In 51: Salix humboldtiana. In 63: Salix humboldtiana, Ruprechtia salicifolia. In 64–67: Salix humboldtiana, S. fragilis, Ruprechtia salicifolia. In 74 (lowland forests): Luma apiculata (Myrceugenella chequen), Myrceugenia exsucca, Drimys winteri, Cissus striata, Maytenus boaria, Peumus boldus. 2. Surveying the main vegetation units in cross-sections of Patagonia The overview given by Hueck and Seibert can be completed by plotting the most important vegetation units on several W–E-cross-sections.
11. ĺ 3. ĺ 5. ĺ 8. 10. – Palmatisect (digitate) leaf blade – Palmatifid (palmately lobed) leaf blade ĺ G8 ĺ G9 11. – Two types of leaves in pairs on the same twig: the larger one obovate to rounded or ellipticlanceolate and dentate; the smaller one rounded – Only one type of leaf on the same twig ĺ G 10 12. – Odd-pinnate, even-pinnate, bi-pinnate or tri-pinnate leaves – Trifoliate leaves or simple leaves ĺ G 11 ĺ 13. 13. – Trifoliate leaves – Leaves simple (alternate) ĺ G 12 ĺ 14. 14. – Dark purple, almost black leaves – Leaves mainly green or whitish, sometimes tinged or blotted with purple ĺ G 13 ĺ 15.