• A new Specklinia (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) from Costa Rica and Panama 

      Bogarín Chaves, Diego Gerardo; Karremans Lok, Adam Philip; Rincón, Rafael; Gravendeel, Barbara (2013)
      A new species of Specklinia from the Cordillera de Talamanca in southern Costa Rica and western Panama is described and illustrated. Specklinia absurda most closely resembles Specklinia fuegi. It differs from that species ...
    • Aristolochia hondurensis (Aristolochiaceae), a new species from Honduras 

      Jiménez Vargas, José Esteban; Oyuela Andino, Olvin; Bonilla, Josué H.; Blanco Coto, Mario Alberto (2023-02-23)
      Aristolochia hondurensis, a new species of Aristolochia series Hexandrae subseries Hexandrae, endemic to Honduras, is described and illustrated. It is a species morphologically similar to Aristolochia anguicida, from which ...
    • Ascidian diversity of Costa Rica, including new records for the North Pacific 

      González Sánchez, Kaylen; Flores Alvarado, Bryan; Montiel Barrantes, Paula; Gómez Arce, Gonzalo; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José (2021-10-30)
      Introduction: The class Ascidiacea has about 3 000 species, which fulfill various roles in the ecosystem, for example, they filter high amounts of particles, and are shelter and food for other animals. Furthermore, the ...
    • Assemblages of corticolous myxomycetes associated with species of Pinus (Pinaceae) in four different regions of the world 

      Stephenson, Steven L.; Marbaniang, Tanya M.; Gupta, Pragati; Rojas Alvarado, Carlos Alonso (2020-07-02)
      Corticolous myxomycetes associated with four species of pine in different regions of the world were investigated. Samples of bark collected from 20 trees in each region were used to prepare 240 moist chamber cultures, ...
    • Área de Conservación Guanacaste Echinoderms, North Pacific of Costa Rica 

      Chacón Monge, José Leonardo; Azofeifa Solano, Juan Carlos; Alvarado Barrientos, Juan José; Cortés Núñez, Jorge (2021)
      Introducción: El estudio de la diversidad marina del Pacífico Norte de Costa Rica inició con expediciones extranjeras aisladas en la década de 1930, y fue desarrollado sistemáticamente a mediados de la década de 1990 por ...
    • Epidendra Nova Talamancana 

      Díaz Morales, Melissa; Karremans Lok, Adam Philip (2016-09-02)
      Two new species of Epidendrum from the Costa Rican montane rainforest, E. hartmanniorum and E. vallis-silentii, are described, illustrated and compared with similar species. Epidendrum stolidium and E. unicallosum are ...
    • La familia Bombacaceae (Malvales) en Costa Rica 

      Cascante Marín, Alfredo (1997)
      General descriptions and taxonomic keys to the nine genera (Bernoullia, Ceiba, Huberodendron, Matisia, Ochroma, Pachira, Pseudobombax, Quararibea, and Spirotheca) and twenty-four species of Bombacaceae species known to ...
    • Guía de los áfidos alados de Costa Rica 

      Voegtlin, David; Villalobos Muller, William; Sánchez Vega, Marco Vinicio; Saborío Rodríguez, Guido Alonso; Rivera Herrero, Carmen (2003-05)
      This guide is a compilation of limited morphological and biological information on the winged morphs of 60 species of aphids that have been collected in Costa Rica. It should not be viewed as a definitive taxnomic treatise ...
    • Mysidopsis gemina n. sp. (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) from the northern Pacifc coast of Costa Rica 

      Price, W. Wayne; Heard, Richard W.; Vargas Castillo, Rita (2019-12-02)
      Mysidopsis gemina n. sp. is described from protected and exposed beach habitats in the provinces of Puntarenas and Guanacaste on the northern Pacifc coast of Costa Rica. Morphologically, M. gemina most closely resembles ...
    • Revisión taxonómica y morfológica y distribución de Zamia (Zamiaceae) en Costa Rica. 

      Acuña Castillo, Rafael (2010)
      Zamia is the third largest genus of Cycadales and the only one with native representatives in Costa Rica. All Costa Rican species inhabit rainforest undergrowth in low and mid elevation forests (up to 1100 m on the Caribbean ...
    • Sobralia abel-arayae, a new and scarce species from Costa Rica 

      Dressler, Robert L.; Fernández Campos, Melania; Pupulin, Franco (2014-09)
      Descripción de especie Sobralia abel-arayae
    • Taxonomic Keys and Plates from The Myxomycetes 

      Martin, George W.; Alexopoulos, Constantine J. (2021-04-01)
      In 1969, George W. Martin and Constantine J. Alexopoulos published a remarkable work on myxomycetes. Their monograph on this group of organisms became one of the references to the taxonomy and geographical distribution of ...
    • The New Refugium Botanicum. Kefersteinia retanae 

      Pupulin, Franco; Fernández Campos, Melania (2016-04)
      Kefersteinia retanae G. Gerlach, Brenesia 52: 75. 1999 [2000]. Type: Costa Rica. San José: Pérez Zeledón, Peña Blanca, 2,000 feet (600 m), flowered in cultivation at Münich Botanical Garden, June 1992, prepared on the ...
    • The orchid flora of Cocos Island National Park, Puntarenas, Costa Rica 

      Bogarín Chaves, Diego Gerardo; Warner Pineda, Jorge; Powell, Martyn P.; Savolainen, Vincent (2011-02-02)
      The orchid flora of Cocos Island National Park, Costa Rica is described based on field collections and herbarium sampling. Cocos Island is an oceanic island situated 550 km south-west of Puntarenas (the main Costa Rican ...
    • Tratamiento sistemático del género Trichosalpinx (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) en Costa Rica 

      Fernández Campos, Melania (2014)
      A taxonomic revision of Trichosalpinx (Orchidaceae) in Costa Rica is presented. The taxonomic history of the genus, its phylogenetic position and nomenclatural issues are discussed. Characters of vegetative and floral ...