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Click on the thumbnail for images from our trip to Costa Rica in summer, 2006, to participate in the OTS tropical plant systematics class, and to hunt for Bursera standleyana, a member of the simaruba clade:
| Mark with
a big Combretum |
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| Cerro La
Cangreja, on the Pacific slope near San José |
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| Canyons
in the area of La Cangreja, Bursera
standleyana country (see the simaruba clade page) |
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| Chico
Morales and Julieta-- lunch in the rental |
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| Slogging
up the Río Negro hunting for Bursera |
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| Chico
napping on a gravel bar |
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| Julieta
triumphant with the bizarre leaves of Bursera
standelyana |
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| Mark
with Zamia |
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| A
fabulous bilobed Ophioglossum from La Selva |
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| La
Selva bullet ant |
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| Robbin
Moran with a monster Nephrolepis frond |
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| La
Selva daddy longlegs |
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| Popocatepetl
and Ixtaccihuatl on a wonderfully clear day |
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Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México
Circuito Exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria
Copilco, Coyoacán A. P. 70-367
C. P. 04510, México, D. F.
MÉXICO
(52) 55 5622-9127 fon (52) 55 5555-1760 fax
molson@ibiologia.unam.mx
or explore@explorelifeonearth.org
all material © 2006 Mark E Olson