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Research trip to the state of Bolivar, Venezuela

January, 2005.

    This trip was in collaboration with Dr. Wilmer Diaz, Botanical Garden of the Orinoco, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela and Dr. Alejandro Novelo R., National University of Mexico (Mexico).  Collections made during this trip were deposited in the herbarium of the Botanical Garden of the Orinoco.

 

Tom Philbrick with plants of Mourera fluviatilis

 

Waterfall of the Caroni River.

 

Mourera fluviatilis projecting from the rapids of the Caroni River.

 

Alejandro Novelo displaying a specimen of Mourera fluviatilis.

 

A tiny species of Apinagia growing on an old concrete bridge abutment.

 

 

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