Researchers at MO Alba L. Arbelaez Editor Assistant, Nicaraguan Fern Project Missouri Botanical Garden P.O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 USA office phone: + 1-314-577-5180 fax: +1-314-577-0830 email: albaarbelaez@hotmail.com Currently registered in the graduate program at University of Missouri Saint Louis (UMSL) M.S., Lehman College at City University of New York (CUNY), 1995 B.S., Universidad de Antioquia, Antioquia, Colombia, 1992 General Research Interests Ferns of the Andean Countries, general collecting Genus Meliosma Research Emphases Monograph of the genus Meliosma in the New World. Selected Publications Thomas, Wm.W., Carvalho, A.M., Amorin, A.M., Garrison J. & A. L. Arbelaez. 1998. Plant endemism in two forest in southern Bahia, Brazil. Biodiversity and Conservation 7, 311-322. Arbelaez, A.L. 1996. La tribu Pteridaceae (Pteridaceae). Flora de Colombia 18: 1-105. Arbelaez, A.L. 1995. Two new species and new records for Pteris (Pteridaceae) from Colombia. Brittonia 47(2): 175-181.