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The New York Botanical Garden has had an institutional focus on global plant and fungal conservation, both explicitly and implicitly, throughout its 125 year history of botanical research, education and publication. Research has laid the underpinnings for species and habitat conservation. Education, formal and informal, has built human capacity for understanding and saving plants and fungi. Publications,...
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), founded 125 years ago in 1891, established a publications program five years later, in 1896, with the launch of The Bulletin of The New York Botanical Garden. Since then, NYBG has published or co-published seven journal titles, 308 books in eight series, and at least 19 stand-alone books. Now, 120 years later, what today is known as NYBG Press has evolved to become...
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, The New York Botanical Garden, under the leadership of its Director-in-Chief, Nathaniel Lord Britton, launched an intensive program of exploration and publication on the plants of the Western Hemisphere, particularly in the northern Caribbean region. One major geographic focus during this period was the Bahama archipelago, resulting in the 1920 publication The Bahama Flora...
Remijia hubbardiorum B. M. Boom, endemic to white sandcampinas orerra firme forest in the Rio Uatumã region in the State of Amazonas of north central Brazil, is described and illustrated, and its morphological differentiation with respect toR. asperula Standley is discussed.
A new species of the genusTetracera (T. maguirei) from the sandstone savannas and shrubby forests in Guyana is described, illustrated, and compared toT. asperula Miq. A key to the species ofTetracera from the Guianas is provided.
Coussarea granvillei is newly described and illustrated from material collected in the environs of Mount Galbao, near Saül, French Guiana. This new species is compared toC. amapaensis, for which the morphological and distributional ranges are extended and briefly discussed, and toC. leptophragma andC. revoluta.
Pagamea aracaënsis Boom, endemic to Serra Aracá, Brazil is described and illustrated, and its relationship toP. anisophylla Standley & Steyerm, is discussed.
Three new species ofTernstroemia are described and illustrated. Two of these,Ternstroemia aracae andT., prancei, are high-elevation taxa endemic to Serra Aracá. Brazil. The third,T. campinicola, is a low-elevation, widespread species restricted to white-sand savannas in the Brazilian, Venezuelan, and Colombian Guayana.
A new combination, Palicourea, Palicourea brachyloba for a white-flowered Amazonian species in anticipation of its use in other publications. Comments on the local name and utilization are given.
Rapatea saülensis, a new species from the vicinity of Saül, French Guiana, is described and illustrated. The new taxon appears to be closely related toR. paludosa Aubl., from which it differs principally in its subcordate, oblique leaf-blade bases, and toR. muaju Garcia-Barr. & Mora, from which it differs mostly in its larger leaf blades.
A revision is presented, of the neotropical genusIsertia Schreber.Cassupa Humb. & Bonpl. is given a new status asIsertia sectionCassupa (Humb. & Bonpl.) B. M. Boom, based on differences in fruit type, number of locules in the ovary, and number of lobes of the stigma. A new combination is made at the species level,I. laevis (Triana) B. M. Boom, and a new species from Panama is described and...
In 1926 George Tate participated in a collecting expedition to the Cordillera Real of Bolivia and Peru under the auspices of H. S. Ladew and The American Museum of Natural History. Although the emphasis of the expedition was zoological, Tate managed to collect 1215 plant numbers from which over 50 new species were later described, primarily by H. H. Rusby. These specimens, including most types, were...
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