They live in the Andean slopes of the central Ecuadorian Bolívar province.

Yet not a word about Peru's rainforests, or the state of the topsoil on those steep Andean slopes.

Airline pilots flying over central Colombia say they are sighting more than dormant volcanoes and coffee plots on Andean slopes.

It is largely restricted to lowlands, but occurs up to an altitude of 2000 m (6500 ft) on the east Andean slopes.

It was first domesticated on Andean slopes.

During the 1980s, cultivation of illicit coca was established in large areas on the eastern Andean slope.

Their natural habitat is the Andean slopes of the central Ecuadorian Bolívar province.

It lives on moderately wet soils preferable on Andean slopes from 500-1100 meters (1600-3500 ft).

Among the least known members of the family, it is endemic to humid forests growing on the east Andean slope in northern Peru.

It is endemic to forest edge and shrub at altitudes of 1700-3400 m. on the east Andean slope in Colombia.