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Fabian A. Michelangeli, Ph.D.<\/a>, is an Associate Curator of the Institute of Systematic Botany at The New York Botanical Garden<\/a>. His research focuses in part on the evolution, identification, and classification of neotropical plants.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Miconia victorini<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In my last post<\/a> I recounted how my colleagues and I\u00a0explored eastern Cuba, collecting different members of the family Melastomataceae.\u00a0Only a dozen species in this group, which includes plants known as meadow beauties, princess flowers and Johnny berries, are found in the United States, but it is very diverse in the tropics.\u00a0In Cuba, there are more than\u00a0200 species of Melastomataceae, and more than 150 of those\u00a0are endemic, found only on that island.<\/p>\n

Here are some\u00a0representatives from the Sierra Maestra Mountains that we encountered on our expedition.\u00a0Most of these species are adapted to the cloud forest conditions of the mountains.
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