Department of Botany journey award recipients introduced (April 2024)

From The Plant Press, Vol. 27, No. 2, April 2024.

Department of Botany journey award recipients introduced

Named awards are introduced yearly to assist the research of collections within the United States National Herbarium. This yr, a complete of eight awards have been made. Each of the 2024 awardees will go to for about one month over the course of the subsequent yr.

Harold E. Robinson & Vicki A. Funk Award

• Danielle Remor
  Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (Brazil)
  Systematic research within the Stilpnopappus alliance (Asteraceae: Vernonieae)
• Fabiula Moreno Arantes
  Uberlândia Federal University (Brazil)
  Systematics and floral evolution of Wunderlichioideae, an endemic subfamily of South America

José Cuatrecasas Award

• Ana Gabriela Martínez Becerril
  National Autonomous University of Mexico
  Unraveling the systematics of a tropical fern clade within the megadiverse genus Elaphoglossum (Dryopteridaceae)
• Andrés Fonseca Cortés
  Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (Brazil)
  Systematics of Macropsychanthus (Leguminosae): phylogeny, biogeography and taxonomic revision
• Atiles Reis Junior
  Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
  Systematics of the neotropical Diplazium cristatum advanced
• Rosa María Villanueva Espinoza
  South China Botanical Garden
  Taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Justicia (Acanthaceae: Justicieae: Justiciinae) in Peru
• Yeison Londoño Echeverri
  University of Antioquia (Colombia)
  Taxonomic synopsis of the household Rutaceae Juss. (Sapindales) in Colombia: variety, endemism, new species, and conservation standing

Lyman B. & Ruth C. Smith Award

• María Fernanda Valencia Escalante
  Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  Systematics of the “Sodiroa” group inside Guzmania Ruiz & Pav. (Bromeliaceae: Tillandsioideae)