What is in an orchid name: a tribute to the early naturalists in Costa rica



Título del documento: What is in an orchid name: a tribute to the early naturalists in Costa rica
Revista: Lankesteriana
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000371477
ISSN: 1409-3871
Autores:
Año:
Periodo: Ene
Volumen: 13
Número: 3
Paginación: 291-317
País: Costa Rica
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico, descriptivo
Resumen en inglés The early history of Costa Rican orchidology was deeply influenced by a number of naturalists, mainly European by birth, who dedicated themselves to explore a still virgin country, bringing back from their trips a treasure of species to be apprehended by science. While some of them where just occasional voyagers and explorers, other establish themselves in Costa Rica in a long and fecund relationship, that raised to the birth of a new generation of national naturalists in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Even if their faces are sometimes unknown, their names are linked forever to the orchid that helped to reveal to science and to humanity. What follows, and using as an excuse the name of some orchids, is a brief overview of the life and deeds of some of these early naturalists, as a tribute to their contribution to the development of Costa Rican orchidology
Disciplinas: Biología
Palabras clave: Angiospermas,
Taxonomía y sistemática,
Historia de la biología,
Naturalistas,
Orchidaceae,
Costa Rica
Keyword: Biology,
Angiosperms,
Taxonomy and systematics,
History of biology,
Naturalists,
Orchidaceae,
Costa Rica
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