The Central Andean dry puna - the mountain (alpine) grassland with
alpine bunch-grasses interspersed with herbs, grasses, lichens, mosses,
ferns, cushion plants, and occasional low shrubs. Eastern slope of the Andes Highlands.
Altitude is about 3500 m above sea level.
Precordillera, Jujuy Province, Northwest Argentina not far from the Bolivia border Anna Semashko, August (winter) 2008
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