Main | Family List (MO) | Family List (INBio) | Cutting Edge Draft Treatments | Guidelines | Checklist | Citing | Editors The Cutting Edge Volume XXV, Number 3, July 2018 News and Notes | Leaps and Bounds | Germane Literature | Season's Pick | Annotate your copy Godmania aesculifolia (Kunth) Standl. (Bignoniaceae), flowering very near the middle of April, got a head start in the race to be in the spotlight for this season. Finding this striking and rather small-flowered tree down the hill a way from Cerro Rayos (near Orotina), we were at first fooled into thinking it might be the long-wished-for flowering material of Vitex cymosa Bertero ex Spreng. of verbenaceous (or lamiaceous) fame (see under "Annotate Your Copy"). The latter has been collected in Costa Rica only sterile and in fruit, a bit further down the hill, at Parque Nacional Carara. But of course that sp. is supposed to have white to pink or blue flowers. But we still don't know what the flowers of our V. cymosa look like, do we? Check out Hammel's Flickr post to see more images of this season's pick.   TOP