We are grateful to the National Science Foundation for its support of this project (Grant number: NSF-DEB-10206230). We thank Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia and especially the incredible staff of Parque Nacional Natural Las Orquídeas for their logistical support and invaluable help during the arduous and always successful field expeditions. We thank the staff of the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium (NY), the Herbario Nacional Colombiano, and the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia for their contributions, especially to Melissa Tulig (NY) for assisting with the website construction. We are grateful to Marjorie Graham, who helped curate the vast digital photography databases. Lastly, we thank to our network of collaborating systematists for contributing with the identification of the plants of Las Orquídeas National Park, among them Pedro Acevedo, T. E. Almeida, Rafael Arévalo, Cornelius Berg, Ricardo Callejas, Duván Canal, Natalia Castaño, John L. Clark, Laura Clavijo, Theodore Cochrane, Xavier Cornejo, Thomas B. Croat, Rodrigo Duno de Stefano, J. L. Fernández, Gloria Galeano, Santiago Díaz, Javier Garzón, Diego Giraldo, Giovanny Giraldo, María F. González, Favio González, Michael H. Grayum, S. Guerrero, Marc Hachadourian, Barry Hammel, Andrew Henderson, Alvaro Idárraga, Peter M. Jorgensen, Jackie Kallunki, Lawrence Kelly, Olga Kosovsky, Ricardo Kriebel, P. J. M. Maas, Hiltje Maas, Humberto Mendoza, Fabian Michelangeli, Francisco J. Morales, Robbin C. Moran, Scott Mori, José Murillo, Michael Nee, Andrés Orejuela, Rosa Ortiz-Gentry, Carlos Parra, Gregory M. Plunkett, Jefferson Prado, Ghillean Prance, Susanne Renner, Liz K. Ruíz, Harold E. Robinson, Francisco J. Roldán, Nelson Salinas, David Sanín, Marcela Serna, Marcela Firens da Silveira, Stela Suárez, Michael Sundue, Dariusz Szlachetko, Charlotte M. Taylor, Wayt Thomas, Laura Toro, Gordon C. Tucker, William Vargas, Henk van der Werff, and Alejandro Zuluaga (AAU, CAS, COL, CIIDIR, CTES, EIU, HUA, HUEFS, K, L, MO, NY, PH, UNA, US, VT, WIS).
Team
Paola Pedraza-Peñalosa. Principal Investigator.
Julio Betancur. Principal Investigator.
Maria Fernanda Gonzalez. Research Assistant. Mafe has worked in several floristics projects in Colombia in association with Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt and Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Mateo Jaimes. Research Assistant. Mateo recently obtained his B.S. in Biology and is currently involved with various botanical projects.
Elizabeth Rose Tineo. Research Assistant.