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REINFORCEMENTS HAVE ARRIVED! MO Assistant Curator Carmen Ulloa Ulloa,
abundantly experienced from eight years on Doug Stevens’s Flora de
Nicaragua team, has joined the Manual project in an editorial capacity.
This is just what the doctor ordered to get us over the hump for the first (monocot)
volume. Carmen will mainly be checking keys and descriptions, prioritizing unedited
monocot families; she is already well into Poaceae. We are very grateful to
have Carmen in our corner.
MUSEO SOLDIERS ON. Alfredo Cascante (CR) reports that the Museo Nacional
has embarked on a new plant exploration enterprise in the Río Savegre
basin, supported partially with funding from the government of Spain. This large,
wild, and scarcely botanized area, one of those botanical black holes, is located
in the central Pacific slope region, which has been so profitable in recent
years for the Museo team. Field responsibilities will be ably shouldered by
Armando Estrada (CR), over the course of the next year and a half.
CHICO REVISITED. INBio superstar and bon vivant Francisco Morales made
huge strides during intensive herbarium work at CGE, G, K, MO, and P last August
and September. Chico’s amazing memory and unsurpassed field knowledge of Costa
Rican plants render him uniquely well qualified to evaluate types and other
historical collections. Advances in our knowledge of Costa Rican floristics
follow every one of his herbarium tours.
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