Main | Family List (MO) | Family List (INBio) | Cutting Edge Draft Treatments | Guidelines | Checklist | Citing | Editors The Cutting Edge Volume XII, Number 4, October 2005 News and Notes | Recent Treatments | Leaps and Bounds | Germane Literature | Season's Pick | Annotate your copy SEASON'S PICK: Burmeistera quercifolia Gómez-Laur. & L. D. Gómez (Campanulaceae), suspect nomenclaturally but in very good standing taxonomically, is our main feature, along with several other spp. of Burmeistera, a genus which seems to love cloud forest and is profusely flowering this time of year. This season's featured species was the main goal of a recent (successful) trip to Parque Nacional Juan Castro Blanco, by new INBio volunteer Claire Cerling and colleagues Barry Hammel, Isabel Pérez, and Daniel Solano, who is collaborating with Manual contributor José González to produce our Campanulaceae treatment. Daniel reports that he has approximately 13 Burmeistera names to account for. Below, photos of four species. B. quercifolia, vouchered by Solano 2683 (left by B. Hammel, right by D. Solano). B. cyclostigmata, vouchered by Hammel 23769 (both by B. Hammel). B. parviflora, left voucher and photo Solano 2682, right voucher and photo Hammel 23765. B. vulgaris left voucher and photo Hammel 23766, right voucher and photo Solano 2187. TOP