Euphorbia Lanj.

• Region

  South America

• Country

  Brazil

• State/Province

  Mato Grosso

• County/Municipio

  Barra do Garças Mun.

• Locality

  172 km NNE of village of Xavantina. 36.5 km S of Lendico's restaurant.

• Coordinates

  -15.8903, -52.2567

• Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

  123012

• Georeferencing Method

  Other source. The coordinates represent the seat of the municipio.

• Geodetic Datum

  SAD69

• Location Notes

  Crest of Serra do Roncador, along new road.

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

The New York Botanical Garden
Euphorbia
det. M. Nee, 2006
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Municipio de Barra do Gargas: crest of Serra do Roncador, along new
road, 172 km NNE of viUage of XAVANTINA. 9 Dec 1969
36.5 km S of Lsndico*s restaurant*
(On gently-sloped divide between Xlngu drainage to west and Rio das Mortes-
AragfUcLia drainage to east; terrain flat or gently rolling. Xeromorphic “cerrado”
scrub or woodland (savanna sens, lat.) on uplands, narrow gallery forest along
brooks. A narrow band of grassy, seasonally marshy campo borders the gallery
forests, separating them from the cerrado. These campos usually have scattered
circular groves of cerrado scrub a few meters in diameter on slightly raised soil,
each with a termite mound. Underlying rock of region is sandstone, giving rise
to slightly clayey fine-sandy deep latosol, sterile and reddish or yellowish-tan
with almost no humus -on uplands, sterile and light gray on upper valley slopes,
black with humus in upper layer on lower valley slopes and floors. In restricted
areas, small laterite blocks or quartz pebbles may form a thin permeable subsurface
layer, or upper soil layer may be purely of laterite pebbles. Region just starting
to be settled. Most gallery forests still virgin; cerrado and campo uncut except
wnall areas by houses; grazing none, or local and slight. Cerrado burned every
few years; so far this has only reduced lower shrub density in a few areas
without affecting basic physiognomy«)
Habitat of this n°: high plateau top with low-tree 6
scrub woodland cerrado* Substrate is laterite
pebbles with very little fine soil,
this n*i herb.
leg. George Eiten & Liene T. Eiten, n.° 9£27
Distributed by the Instituto de Botànica, SSo Paulo
01028103