Angasima-tepui, also known as Adanta, Adankasima or Adankachimö,Adankasima
. ClimTepuyes. is a

tepui A tepui , or tepuy (), is a table-top mountain or mesa found in South America, especially in Venezuela and western Guyana. The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the Pemon, the indigenous people who inhabit the Gran S ...

in Bolívar state,

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

.Huber, O. (1995). Geographical and physical features. In: P.E. Berry, B.K. Holst & K. Yatskievych (eds.) '' Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Volume 1. Introduction.'' Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. pp. 1–61. A relatively isolated peak, both it and nearby Upuigma-tepui lie just south of the vast Chimantá Massif, from which they are separated by the Río Aparurén valley. Amurí-tepui, the closest member of the Chimantá Massif, is only from Angasima-tepui. The imposing triangular peak of Angasima-tepui has an elevation of around . Its summit plateau is heavily windswept, the northern part being dominated by low herbaceous vegetation. A southern peak bears dense tepui scrub. The mountain has a summit area of and an estimated slope area of . It is situated entirely within the bounds of Canaima National Park. Torres, I.N. & D.D. Martín (November 2007). Mejorando Nuestra Herencia. The undescribed

pitcher plant Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants which have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. The traps of what are considered to be "true" pitcher p ...

''Heliamphora'' sp. 'Angasima Tepui' is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...

to the summit region of Angasima-tepui.McPherson, S., A. Wistuba, A. Fleischmann & J. Nerz (2011). '' Sarraceniaceae of South America''. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole.

References

* Brewer-Carías, C. (2010)
El origen de los tepuyes: los hijos de las estrellas
''Río Verde'' 3: 54–69. * * Pruski, J.F. (1989). Notes on the Compositae of the Guayana Highland—I. A new species of ''Stomatochaeta'' and the reduction of ''Guaicaia'' to ''Glossarion'' (Compositae: Mutisieae). ''Brittonia'' 41(1): 35–40. * Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., S. Nogué & V. Rull (August 2012). Global warming, habitat shifts and potential refugia for biodiversity conservation in the neotropical Guayana Highlands. ''Biological Conservation'' 152: 159–168. {{Tepuis , Venezuela Tepuis of Venezuela Mountains of Venezuela Mountains of Bolívar (state)

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