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Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica

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The Cutting Edge

Volume XIX, Number 2, April 2012

News and Notes | Leaps and Bounds | Germane Literature | Season's Pick | Annotate your copy

SEASON'S PICK: Schizocalyx veraguensis (Dwyer) Kainul. & B. Bremer (Rubiaceae) gets top billing this term.

Schizocalyx veraguensis (Dwyer) Kainul. & B. Bremer (Rubiaceae) Schizocalyx veraguensis (Dwyer) Kainul. & B. Bremer (Rubiaceae) Schizocalyx veraguensis (Dwyer) Kainul. & B. Bremer (Rubiaceae)

Not so many years ago (1988, ha!—add ’em up, it’s 24!—does time fly?) this species (until recently in the genus Bathysa) was discovered by our team for the first time in Costa Rica (Hammel et al. 17029), uncommon at ca. 400 m on the Península de Osa.  We now know it to be a rather common element of very wet forest in certain parts of the southern Pacific coastal mountains, at 200–800+ m elevation, all the way to the northern Cordillera de Talamanca (Cerro Nara region).  Manual co-PI Barry Hammel got to see it himself again, outside the Osa, on a recent trip to said mountains (see “News and Notes,” this issue), and was amazed to find it an abundant midstory sp. in several of the places visited.

Pentagonia lobata C.M. Taylor, another seldom-photographed Rubiaceae of note, was also to be found in some of the areas visited by Hammel et al. this same trip.

Pentagonia lobata C.M. Taylor Pentagonia lobata C.M. Taylor Pentagonia lobata C.M. Taylor

The photos of the two spp. are vouchered by Hammel et al. 26124 and 26114 (INB), respectively.

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