Main | Family List (MO) | Family List (INBio) | Cutting Edge Draft Treatments | Guidelines | Checklist | Citing | Editors The Cutting Edge Volume XXIV, Number 2, April 2017 News and Notes | Leaps and Bounds | Germane Literature | Season's Pick SOLANACEAE. Not a new taxon, we think, but at least a name nailed down. Among the four boxes of Solanaceae specimens in a loan recently returned to MO was one (A. Chacón 268) annotated as Solandra longiflora Tussac, a name not previously used for Costa Rican material. Given its locality (700 m, vert. Carib. E Cord. de Talamanca) and certain morphological details, we are strongly persuaded that the specimen in question represents the sp. treated as "Solandra sp. A" in Manual Vol. 8 (2015). While S. longiflora has been recorded mainly from South America and the Greater Antilles, it has been collected at least once (according to TROPICOS) from Panama, in Prov. Bocas del Toro—a relatively short distance from the Costa Rican locale. A particular frustration for us is that the Costa Rican specimen was determined by the late William G. D'Arcy (MO) way back in 1991, in plenty of time for the name to have been deployed in the Manual; however, Bill's determination was never entered in TROPICOS, and the specimen has been away on loan (though not to a Manual collaborator!) since that time. TOP