George Rogers
Over the last year (1996-1997), a group of biology students from the University of the West Indies has been preparing a comprehensive account of the grasses and sedges of Barbados. The graminoids there have not been examined closely in decades. The account in the Flora of Barbados by E. G. B. Gooding (1965) was based only on a small sample of specimens. The accounts in the Flora of the Greater Antilles are regional in scope, and involved no work on Barbados. Dr. Sean Carrington's recent "Wild plants of Barbados" deliberately omitted the graminoids, pending an in-depth separate account of the grasses and sedges, which our endeavor comprises.
Grasses and sedges are the most diverse, most conspicuous, and most pervasive plants on Barbados, and the species composition is changing. Species new to the island are turning up frequently as the work progresses. Their arrivals are not difficult to explain in speculative terms: introduced forage and turf grasses, animal feeds, visiting race horses with seeds in their stomachs, and seedy imported topsoil for the upscale landscaping come to mind.
Of particular concern is the loss of habitats and of species. Barbados is a tiny island, and any other habitat, other than sugar cane fields, pasture, and disturbed scrubland, is scarce and shrinking. Most of the beaches are almost literally covered with hotels; forests are reduced to postage stamp size areas; and freshwater and brackish habitats are few. Among these is the well known Graeme Hall Swamp, the last mangrove swamp on Barbados. The swamp (really largely a brackish marsh, meadow, and savanna) is home to scores of species of graminoids, as well as to a unique aquatic and avian fauna. Thus the swamp is a focal point of our exploration, at the very time it is suffering substantial new impacts. One side of the area is the new home of a sewage treatment plant, and the other side is in the early stages of development as an ecotourism destination. Road construction and pumping operations appear to be altering water levels, salinity, and the florisitic composition.
Perhaps, the most important reason for the work is to provide the University of the West Indies biology students an opportunity to experience and research their local flora. In 1996-1997, students Bernice McClain and Sadee Forde prepared accounts of the "Large-bracted Sedges of Barbados" and of the "Seashore Grasses of Barbados," respectively. Ayander Holder is struggling with the species of Paspalum and Panicum. Faye Williams had prepared illustrations for a guide to the grasses for beachcombers. We all stand in awe of the array of grasses and sedges housed on our coral outcrop island that is only 20 miles long.
James D. Ackerman
In June, 1997, Frank Axelrod and I spent about 16 days in Cuba. Our plan was to spend about a week in La Habana visiting colleagues and studying specimens in the herbaria at HAC and HAJB. As in my previous trip, Marta A. Díaz was our host and made all arrangements for housing and transportation. We stayed in one of the University houses (Calle 41, No. 703) and it was very reasonably priced and comfortable. As it turned out, we spent most of our herbarium time at HAC which is packed with historical collections (e.g. Wright, Roig, Acuña).
The remainder of the time we planned to visit Guantánamo Province, particularly some high elevation wet montane sites. Unfortunately, at the last moment, we were denied permission to visit these areas but we were allowed to visit others. So off we went. We flew from La Habana to Santiago de Cuba, where some colleagues met us. We immediately left for the dry forest along the coast in the municipality of San Antonio del Sur. We found a number of interesting plants (Frank was doing the general collecting) but very few orchids. The combination of mosquitos and scarcity of orchids drove us north to the wet districts of Baracoa. We visited the area near Yumurí, El Yunque and Río Toa. The vegetation in nearly all sites we visited was disturbed but we picked up some good material of Encyclia, a genus that Marta and I have been working on together. One of the species Marta suspects is new. Near the end of our stay in the Oriente, we returned south to the city of Guantánamo. The next day we drove west of the city to the high, wet plateau called Alto de Mango. There were patches of limestone forest, somewhat disturbed, nonetheless fascinating and reminiscent of such areas in the Dominican Republic.
Although we did not get to the areas we had intended on visiting, we did see a variety of habitats and collected over 50 numbers of orchids and many more of other plant families. We also brought back some live material to flower. As in my last trip, Marta Alate did all she could to make my trip a successful one for which we are very grateful. Hospitality everywhere was tremendous.
After the IV International Orchid Workshop in Sora, Cuba, this November, the Flora of the Greater Antilles Orchidaceae collaborators will visit Holguín to collect orchids in high, wet regions of the province. Marta is making arrangements for this trip so it should be a productive one as well.
These trips have been funded by my NSF-BSI grant (DEB 9505459).
Duane A. Kolterman
Between March and August or 1997, four Cuban botanists visited Puerto Rico, each for 17-18 days. Their visits were sponsored by the Atlantea Project of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), which provides funds to promote collaboration between UPR faculty members and their peers in the Caribbean, on particular those in the Antilles. Their visits, which provided them with an opportunity to pursue studies relating to the plant families they are studying for the Flora de la República de Cuba and the Flora of the Greater Antilles, were originally planned for late March and early April. Two of them, however, obtained their visas too late to come at that time, and visited us later in the year. During each visit, field trips were conducted so that our visitors could observe plants and collect specimens to take back to their herbaria, and time was set aside so that they could work in each of the four herbaria in Puerto Rico, MAPR, SJ, UPR, and UPRRP. Lectures and meetings with local botanists and students were also scheduled. The participants in these activities represented many institutions and agencies: the UPR Botanical Garden; and the UPR campuses at Mayagüez, Río Piedras, Cayey, Humacao, and Ponce; Pontifical Catholic University; Sacred Heart University; the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources; the International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITF); and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).
Isidro E. Méndez Santos (Instituo Pedagógico "José Martí" of Camagüey, herbarium HIPC) and Armando Urquiola Cruz (Instituto Superior Pedagógico of Pinar del Río, herbarium HPPR) visited from 19 March to 6 April. Field trips were conducted to Luquillo, Carite, Peñuelas, Boquerón, Maricao, Susúa, Guánica Sierra Bermeja, Guajataca, and the Tortuguero Lagoon. On some of the trips, we were accompanied by Milcíades M. Mejía Pimentel and Ricardo G. García G. (Director and Associate Director, respectively, Jardín Botánico Nacional "Dr. Rafael M. Moscoso", in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), and by Rudy G. O'Reilly, Jr.,(University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix).
In the field and in the herbaria, Isidro and Armando paid particular attention to the families that they are currently working on: the Verbenaceae and the Myrtaceae, respectively. Isidro also had the opportunity to study and annotate nearly 2,000 specimens of Lantana on loan from JBSD, NY, GH, and US. Both visitors gave seminars in Mayagüez and San Juan, and Alberto Areces Mallea (a doctoral student at The New York Botanical Garden) also gave a seminar in Mayagüez.
Ramona Oviedo Prieto (Instituto de Ecología y Sistmática, herbarium HAC) visited us from 23 May to 9 June. Field trips were conducted to Luquillo, Peñuelas, Boquerón, Susúa, the Tortugero Lagoon, the Cartagena Lagoon, and the Joyuda Lagoon. In the field and in the herbaria, Ramona was particularly interested in species of Erythroxylon, wetland vegetation and flora, and rare and endangered plant species. She participated in a discussion at the FWS offices in Cabo Rojo on the latter two topics, studied and annotated loans of Erythroxylon from JBSD and IJ, gave talks in Mayagüez and San Juan, and met with Stuart J. Ramos Biaggi (Chancellor of UPR, Mayagüez at the time of her visit) to share information on the host plants of Atlantea (butterflies) in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Rosalina Berazaín Iturralde (Universidad de La Habana, Jardín Botánico Nacional, herbarium HAJB) visited us from 27 July to 13 august. Given her interest in the families Ericaceae and Cyrillaceae, the field trips to Luquillo and Carite were especially productive: she observed variation in Cyrilla and collected Symphysia racemosa and Gonocalyx portoricensis in flower and fruit and G. concolor in flower. [This represented her first opportunity to observe Gonocalyx in the field, because the genus does not occur in Cuba.] Field trips were also conducted to Guánica, Susúa, and Maricao; the latter two forests on serpentine, whose vegetation and flora Rosalina has studied extensively in Cuba. During her visit she also studied and annotated specimens of Ericaceae and Cyrillaceae on loan from JBSD, and worked in the four Puerto Rican herbaria, and gave talks at Mayagüez and San Juan.
During their visits, our four Cuban botanists collected a total of approximately 1,200 herbarium specimens for heir herbaria. These specimens, we understand, are already being consulted by other Cuban botanists who are working on families for the Flora de la República de Cuba and the Flora of the Greater Antilles. In addition, a great deal of literature was exchanged, and copies of the most recent volumes of
Liogier's Descriptive Flora of Puerto Rico and Adjacent Islands and La Flora de la Española are now available for consultation in Cuba.
Many people contributed to the success of the visits. We particularly wish to acknowledge
the following botanists: Gary J. Breckon and Jeanine Vélez (Director and Curator, respectively, MAPR, George
R. proctor (Director, SJ), José A. Cedeño Maldonado (Curator, UPR), James D. Ackerman and Frank Axelrod
(Director and Curator, respectively, UPRRP),and Julio Figueroa and Carlos Rivera (IITF). We also gratefully acknowledge
the support of the Atlantea Project (Carlos A. Santiago, Coordinator), and the UPR Mayagüez (in particular
José Figueroa Miró, Assistant to the Chancellor, and Flavio Padovani Padilla, Director of the Department
of Biology).
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XVI International Botanical Congress. 1-7 August 1999.. St. Louis, Missouri. WWW Web site: http://www.ibc99.org Contact: Secretary General XVI IBC, c/o Missouri Botanical Garden, Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299. fax (+01) 314 577-9589. e-mail: ibc16@mobot.org
Codon. A new newsletter announced in Taxon 46: 373, 1997. The Campanulales (Campanulaceae, Lobeliaceae, Goodeniaceae, Stylidaceae, Brunoniaceae, Donatiaceae, Sphenocleaceae, Pentaphragmataceae, Nemacladaceae, Cyphiaceae, Cyphocarpaceae) newsletter. For information, contact: Bill Eddie, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburg, Edinburgh EH9 3JH, Scotland. Fax: (+44-131) 650-5392, E-mail: weddie@srv0.bio.ed.ac.uk
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of a Caribbean Island Botanic Gardens Workshop held from Saturday 29 June to Monday 1 July 1996 in Grand Cayman
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A descriptive study of the leaf and stem anatomy of the West Indian (Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas) genus of 10 species. Two publications are expected to be published from this study.
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The eleventh part of this series on Caribbean plants and fungi, their ecology and taxonomy, covering the years 1984 to the present, was published in theFlora of the Greater Antilles Newsletter No. 12, of June, 1997.
Authors are requested to send copies of their publication s to the editor of the Bibliography for inclusion in future parts of the series. Send publications to:
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Dressler, S. 1997. Marcgravia umbellata. Curtis's Bot. Mag. 14: 130-136.
Dubuisson, J.-Y. 1997. Systematic relationships within the genus Trichomanes sensu lato (Hymenophyllaceae, Filicopsida): Cladistic analysis based on anatomical and morphological data. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 123: 265-296.
Eerkens, G. 1997. Een Hylocereus species in Suriname, Succulenta 76: 112, 113.
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Erbar, C. & P. Leins. 1997. Studies on the early floral development in Cleomoideae (Capparaceae) with emphasis on the androecial development. Pl. Syst. Evol. 206: 119-132.
Franco-Rosselli, P. & C. C. Berg. 1997. Distributional patterns of Cecropia (Cecropiaceae): a panbiogeographical analysis. Caldasia 19: 285-296.
Freudenstein, J. V. & F. N. Rasmussen. 1997. Sectile pollinia and relationships in the Orchidaceae. Pl. Syst. Evol. 205: 125-146,
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González, F. 1997. Hacia una filogenia de Aristolochia y sus congeneres neotropicales. Caldasia 19: 115-130.
González-Elizondo, M. S. & P. M. Peterson. 1997. A classification of and key to the supraspecific taxa in Eleocharis (Cyperaceae). Taxon 46: 433-449.
Graven, P., C. G. de Koster, J. J. Boon, & F. Bouman. 1997. Functional aspects of mature seed coat of the Cannaceae. Pl. Syst. Evol. 205: 223-240.
Guerrero, A., F. Jiménez, D. Höner, & T. Zanoni. 1997. La flora y la vegetación de la Loma Barbacoa, Cordillera Central, República Dominicana. Moscosoa 9: 84-116.
Huzman, G., F. Tapia, A. M. Nieves-Riviera, & C. Betancourt. 1997. Two new bluing species of Psilocybe from Puerto Rico. Mycotaxon 58: 377-382.
Hammer, R. L. 1997. The genus Cyrtopodium in Florida, N. Amer. Native Orchid J. 3: 176-185.
Hershkovitz, M. A. & E. A. Zimmer. 1997. On the evolutionary origins of the cacti. Taxon 46: 217-232
Hughes, C. 1997. Proposal to conserve the name Leucaena (Leguminosae) with a conserved type. Taxon 46: 355-356.
Johnson, M. 1997, Släket Klematis. Magnus Johnsons Plantskoola AB: Södertälje, Sweden. [Monograph on Clematis, Ranunculaceae.]
Judd, W. S. 1997. The Flacourtiaceae in the southeastern United States. Harvard Pap. Bot. 10: 65-79.
Kelch, D. G. 1997. The phylogeny of the Podocarpaceae based in morphological evidence. Syst. Bot. 22: 113-131.
Kunze, H. 1997. Corona and nectar system in Asclepiadinae (Asclepiadaceae). Flora 192: 175-183.
Lellinger, D. B. 1997. Pteris deflexa and its allies. Amer. Fern J. 86: 66-70.
Les, D. H., E. Llandolt, & D. J. Crawford. 1997. The Lemnaceae (duckweeds): inferences from micromolecular and morphological data. Pl. Syst. Evol. 204: 161-177.
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Li, Jian-Qiang. 1996. On the phylogeny of the Fagaceae. Acta Phytotaxon. Sinica 36: 597-609. [Abstract in English & Chines, text in Chinese.]
Liede, S. 1997. Subtribes and genera of the tribe Asclepiadeae (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae)-a synopsis. Taxon 46: 233-247.
Liogier, A. H. [Alain Henri Liogier is the same person also publishing as Henri Alain Liogier, which is his birth name.]
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Liogier, H. A. & M. Mejía. 1997. Una nueva especie de Calyptranthes [C. garciae] (Myrtaceae) para la Isla Española. Moscosoa 9: 8-11.
Liogier, H. A. & M. Mejía. 1997. Una nueva especies de Myrcia [M. majaguitana] (Myrtaceae) para la Isla Española. Moscosoa 9: 18-21.
Lira, R., J. Caballero, & P Dávila. 1997. A contribution to the generic delimitation of Sechium (Cucurbitaceae, Sicyinae). Taxon 46: 269-282.
Lombardi, J. A. 1997. Types of names in Ampelocissus and Cissus (Vitaceae) referring to taxa in the Caribbean, Central and N. America. Taxon 46: 423-432.
Lugo, A. E. & F. N. Scatena. 1996 [1997?]. Background and catastrophic tree mortality in tropical moist, wet, and rain forests. Biotropica 28: 585-599.
Mabberly, D. J. 1997. A classification for edible Citrus (Rutaceae). Telopea 7: 167-172.
Martínez, S., S. Botta, & M. E. Múlgura. 1996. Morfología de las inflorescencias en Verbenaceae-Verbenoideae I. Tribu Verbeneae. Darwiniana 34: 1-17.
May, T. 1997. Fases tempranas de la sucesión en un bosque nublado de Magnolia pallescens después de un incendio (Loma de Casabito, Reserva Científica Ebano Verde, Cordillera Central, República Dominicana). Moscosoa 9: 117-144.
McDowell, W. H., C. P. McSwiney, & W. B. Bowden. 1996 [1997?]. Effects of hurricane disturbance on groundwater chemistry and riparian function in a tropical rain forest. Biotropica 28: 577-584.
Meagher, W. L. 1996 [1997]. Vegetation and habitat on a Caribbean island, the Friar's Bay Salt Pond and adjoining habitats on the southeast peninsula of St. Kitts. Phytologia 81: 282-321.
Mejía, M. & R. García. 1997. Una nueva especies de Coccothrinax [C. boschiana] (Arecaceae) para la Isla Española. Moscosoa 9: 1-7.
Mejía, M. & R. García. 1997. Una nueva especie de Melocactus [M. pedernalensis] (Cactaceae) para la Isla Española. Moscosoa 9: 12-17.
Mejía, M., R. García, & F. Jiménez. 1997. Notas sobre la flora de la Isla Española V. Moscosoa 9: 69-83.
Méndez Santos, I. E. 1997. Study on the natural populations of Nashia (Verbenaceae) in Cuba. Lamiales Newsl. 5: 1-2.
Méndez Santos, I. E. & M. O. Puig Jiménez. 1997. Manuel de Monteverde y Bello: agrónomo y naturalista. Moscosoa 9: 154-161.
Morici, C. 1996. Coccothrinax yunquensis. Principes 40: 204-207. [Correction in authors's last name.]
Morici, C. 1997. Coccothrinax barbadensis in Antigua. Principes 41: 84-86.
Morrison, L. W. 1997. The insular biogeography of small Bahamian cays. J. Ecol. 85: 441-454.
Orozco, C. I. 1997. Sobre la posición sistematica de Brunellia Ruíz & Pavón. Caldasia 19: 145-164.
Pierozzi, N. I. & S. L. Jung Mendaçolli. 1997. Karyotype and C-band analysis in two species of Genipa L. (Rubiaceae, Gardenieae Tribe). Cytologia 62: 81-90.
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Sanders, R. W. 1997. The Avicenniaceae in the southeastern United States. Harvard Pap. Bot. 10: 81-92.
Santiago Valentín, E. & M. A. Vives Helyger. 1997. Peperomia wheeleri Britton (Piperaceae): un nuevo record para la isla de Puerto Rico. Moscosoa 9: 62-68.
Santos-Flores, C. J. & C. Betancourt-López. 1997. Aquatic and water-borne Hyphomycetes (Deuteromycotina) in streams in Puerto Rico (including records from other neotropical locations). Caribb. J. Sci. Spec. Publ. 2: 1-116.
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Schneider, E. L. & S. Carlquist. 1996. Vessel origin in Cabomba. Nord. J. Bot. 16: 637-641.
Sharangpani, P. R. & D. R. Shirke. 1996. [1997?]. Scanning electron microscopic studies on ovarian nectaries of Cassia occidentalis L. Phytomorphology 46: 277-281.
Sharpe, J. M. 1996. Growth and demography of sporophytes of Thelypteris angustifolia in the Luquillo rainforest of Puerto Rico, pp. 667-668 In J. M. Camus, M. Gibby, & R. J. John (eds.), Pteridology in perspective. Royal Botanic Gardens: Kew.
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Taylor, C. M. 1997. Conspectus of the genus Palicourea (Rubiaceae: Psychotrieae) with the description of some new species from Ecuador and Colombia. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 84: 224-262.
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Tryon, R. 1997. Proposal to reject the name Acrostichum ebeneum (Pteridaceae). Taxon 46: 339-340.
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