Open AccessAdditions to the vascular flora of Costa Rica: four new records from the Sabanas Miravalles
Author(s) -
José Esteban Jiménez
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of the botanical research institute of texas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2644-1608
pISSN - 1934-5259
DOI - 10.17348/jbrit.v11.i1.1147
Subject(s) - floristics , flora (microbiology) , geography , ecology , vascular plant , forestry , archaeology , geology , biology , paleontology , species richness , bacteria
The Costa Rican vascular flora is well known and studied, but there are gaps of floristic knowledge in some areas and ecosystems that are poorly explored. The Costa Rican savannas, cover a small geographic extent and are almost unexplored floristically. The Sabanas Miravalles are located in the western flank of the Volcán Miravalles in the Cordillera de Guanacaste. As a result of a broad floristic inventory of this site, four species have been documented as new records for the Costa Rican vascular flora: Eriocaulon fuliginosum, Polygala pseudocoelosioides, Trimezia martinicensis, and Utricularia subulata.