Grettel Salguero Hernández

• Research Assistant at University of Costa Rica

The fourth release of the series "New Species and Records of Orchidaceae from Costa Rica" documents and illustrates 17 taxa of the Costa Rican orchid flora. The new species records belong to the subtribes Pleurothallidinae (9 spp.), Maxillariinae (3 spp.), and Oncidiinae (2 spp.), including the description of two new species in Pleurothallis and Te...

Una guia práctica para la confección de láminas de disección digitales de plantas, con énfasis en Orchidaceae.

Morphological description and Natural History of Mormolyca ringens

This paper focuses on the taxonomy and systematics of the species related to Specklinia brighamii and S. simmleriana in Costa Rica. The group also includes S. alexii, recorded for the first time for the country, S. acrisepala, and two newly described taxa, S. barbelifera and S. tirimbina. The six taxa are described on the basis of living material a...

Description and Natural History of Vanda tricolor subsp. suavis

A new form of Maxillaria sanguinea with pale, yellowish and white flowers, is described from Costa Rica as f. exsanguis, and a composite illustration of the new taxon is provided.

Description and Natural History of Cocheanthes aromatica

Páramos are high mountain tropical ecosystems characterized by being dominated by herbaceous plants and small shrubs. Physiognomically, they are similar to the alpine tundra. These ecosystems are of great importance due to their high degree of endemism and their high vulnerability to climate change. Few studies have analyzed the seasonal variation...