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Mickel (staff member 1969-<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1998<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), who added significant collections for Mexico, Costa Rica, Hispaniola, and Trinidad, and monographic studies of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anemia <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elaphoglossum<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and Robbin C. Moran (staff member 1998-2020), who collected extensively across Central America and the northern Andes, with an emphasis on monographic research in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elaphoglossum <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Campyloneurum<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Garden\u2019s first fern curator, Lucien M. 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