Wei-Assipu-tepui, also known as Little Roraima or Roraimita, is a minor tepui of the Eastern Tepuis chain. It lies just off the northeastern flank of...
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A tepui /ˈtɛpwi/, or tepuy (Spanish: [teˈpuj]), is a table-top mountain or mesa found in South America, especially in Venezuela and western Guyana. The...
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(2,500 ), Ilú-tepui (2,700 m), and Tramen-tepui. The minor peak of Wei-Assipu-tepui lies entirely outside Venezuela, on the border between Brazil and Guyana...
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called the Guiana Highlands, which is where the table-like mountains called tepuis are found. The Guiana Highlands are also the source of some of the world's...
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Oreophrynella (category Amphibians of the Tepuis)
tepui, as in the case of Oreophrynella weiassipuensis, which occurs on Wei-Assipu-tepui. Species of the genus Oreophrynella are small frogs, less than 26 mm...
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Oreophrynella quelchii (category Amphibians of the Tepuis)
of Mount Roraima in Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil, and to the nearby Wei-Assipu-tepui on the Brazil–Guyana border. It has been recorded at elevations of...
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Spanish) Carreño, R., J. Nolla & J. Astort (December 2002). Cavidades del Wei-Assipu-tepui, Macizo del Roraima, Brasil. Boletín de la Sociedad Venezolana de Espeleología...
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Distribution of Heliamphora (category Flora of the Tepuis)
mountains of the region, known as tepuis. The genus has a highly disjunct distribution spread across two major groups of tepuis: the western range in Amazonas...
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Oreophrynella weiassipuensis (category Amphibians of the Tepuis)
from Wei-Assipu-tepui, a tepui on the border between Brazil and Guyana. The holotype was collected in 2000 by a speleological expedition to Wei-Assipu-tepui...
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Cerro de la Neblina (category Tepuis of Brazil)
(Theaceae), a high-elevation rosette shrub endemic to a wet equatorial tepui. Oecologia 70(4): 481–485. doi:10.1007/BF00379892 (in Spanish) Joly, L.J...
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Heliamphora nutans (category Flora of the Tepuis)
Brazil and Guyana, where it grows on several tepuis, including Roraima, Kukenán, Yuruaní, Maringma, and Wei Assipu. Heliamphora nutans was the first Heliamphora...
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