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Indigenous communities appear in the protected valleys and on the rocky slopes of the páramo environment; other shrubs present include Lachemilla polylepis, Simplocos nivalis, and Obtegomeria caerulescens.
Santa Marta páramo 2008
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Now, the disk jockey will play a recording (from 1943?) of Fats Waller's "You're a Viper" (just for you Dennis) and we'll be out of here faster than a Dendroaspis polylepis can slither.
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The Telestes polylepis, a critically endangered freshwater species found in Croatia.
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Losing these, we found the cinchona bedewed by the cool clouds of Guaranda; and last of all, among the trees, the polylepis.
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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The next morning, our baggage having come up, we pushed up the mountain through a grand ravine, and over metamorphic rocks standing on their edges with a wavy strike, till we reached a polylepis grove, 12,000 feet above the sea.
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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The Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), is an elapid snake and is one of Africa's most dangerous and feared snakes.
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The Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), is an elapid snake and is one of Africa's most dangerous and feared snakes.
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In the same vein the great forests of polylepis, the world's highest tree, which capture and conserve moisture, have mostly been cut down for firewood.
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The polylepis (_P. racemosa_) is one of the _Sanguisorbaceæ_; in Quichua it is _Sachaquinoa_.]
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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