In an instant, desert gave way to cool, mossy forest and then, as we descended, dense jungle.
As of today, the province still has vast area of remaining old growth and mossy forest.
At elevations above 1,000 m., the park consists of hardwood, pine and mossy forests.
It is one of the few areas in the province covered with old growth or mossy forests.
The typical habitat of this species is mossy forest.
Charles Clarke suggests that it may occur in mossy forest.
Instead of walking across sun-warmed rock, we found ourselves climbing through deep shade in a mossy forest.
My tortoise passenger had already left me, making its own slow way through the mossy forest toward the river.
It has been recorded from mossy forest on a ridge top at 1,460 m altitude.
It typically occurs in open areas of mossy forest amongst ridge-top vegetation.