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Root crops --- Root crops --- Tubers --- Tubers --- Andean region --- Andean region
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International economic relations --- Andean Group --- Latin America
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International economic relations --- Andean Group --- Latin America
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The neotropical orchid genus Telipogon Kunth was established in 1815 and currently comprises more than 250 species. Representatives of this genus are generally epiphytic plants lacking pseudobulbs. The stem is either abbreviated or elongate and the leaves are conduplicate. Flowers are usually resupinate with small sepals and petals similar to the lip, but sometimes different. The gynostemium is covered by stiff or soft hairs. This monograph is a presentation of taxonomic diversity of the orchid genus Telipogon in Colombia and adjecent areas. Morphological characteristics of a total of 96 Telipogon species from Colombia are presented together with information about over 50 taxa found in neighboring countries. A brief discussion of an additional seven taxa described in Colombia, but insufficiently characterized, is also given. Illustrations of perianth segments of almost all national genus representatives are provided. Twenty-five species are described in this paper for the first time – Telipogon alinae, T. bicallosus, T. bugalagrandei, T. castanedoi, T. chimborazoensis, T. cocuyensis, T. cuatrecasasii, T. fassetti, T. fernandezii, T. flabellatus, T. garayi, T. hirsutus, T. huertasii, T. idroboi, T. killipi, T. kraenzlinianus, T. orozcoi, T. pasquillensis, T. schlimii, T. spathipetala, T. sumapazensis, T. tolimensis, T. trianae, T. trilabiatus, and T. verrucosus. Several morphologically consistent groups are distinguished to facilitate identification of Telipogon representatives. Keys for determination of species within each group are provided.
biodiversity --- Andean region --- tropics --- forest --- species identification
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Art, Andean --- Modernism (Art) --- Indians in art
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Desde la decada de los sesenta hasta el presente, varios estudios han analizado las formaciones discursivas que conforman la razon latinoamericana. Los ensayos del presente volumen se limitan al espacio mas estrecho--aunque igualmente desafiante--de los Andes, una categoria que, aun hoy, estamos lejos de definir univocamente. Abarcando un marco temporal que va desde el desarrollo y la expansion de culturas prehispanicas como Chavin y Tiwanaku hasta el activismo contemporaneo de un ecuatoriano migrante en Nueva York que lucha por reclamar su condicion indigena, el volumen propone una genealogia de conceptos como "lo andino" y "andinismo" a traves de una mirada critica a su desarrollo historico y su potencialidad teorica. La introduccion y los cinco capitulos en ingles y espanol reflexionan sobre el estado de los estudios andinos a partir de una serie de operaciones criticas que invitan a problematizar las estrategias politicas que se esconden detras de toda proclamacion de un origen andino para la nacion; subrayar el continuo proceso de reconstruccion y regeneracion de la cosmopraxis andina desde la conquista; interpelar la centralidad del siglo XIX en la constitucion de "lo andino" como una eficaz herramienta para institucionalizar la cultura nacional; historizar la construccion del "andinismo" como una categoria clave para al estudio de los procesos culturales andinos; y, por ultimo, contextualizar la dinamicidad de la cultura andina desde su afianzamiento en espacios globales.
Andes Region --- Acuerdo de Cartagena countries --- Andean countries --- Andean region --- Social life and customs. --- Civilization. --- History.
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