Department of Botany travel award recipients announced
Named awards are presented annually to support the study of collections in the United States National Herbarium. This year, a total of eight awards were made. Each of the 2024 awardees will visit for approximately one month over the course of the next year.
Harold E. Robinson & Vicki A. Funk Award
Danielle Remor Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (Brazil) Systematic studies in 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 in 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 complex
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 family Rutaceae Juss. (Sapindales) in Colombia: diversity, endemism, new species, and conservation status
Lyman B. & Ruth C. Smith Award
María Fernanda Valencia Escalante Universidad Nacional de Colombia Systematics of the "Sodiroa" group within Guzmania Ruiz & Pav. (Bromeliaceae: Tillandsioideae)
