Quarterly Bulletin of the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists’ Club
Issue No: 2/2009April - June 2009
T
his sunny day found twenty persons
of the Botany Group at the southern
part of the Morne L’Enfer Forest Reserve in Southern Trinidad.
We went...
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Quarterly Bulletin of the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists’ Club
Issue No: 2/2009April - June 2009
T
his sunny day found twenty persons
of the Botany Group at the southern
part of the Morne L’Enfer Forest Reserve in Southern Trinidad.
We went southeast on the oil field road, to Los Bajos from
the Point Fortin roundabout entrance.
We
stopped east of Grande Ravine, a few kilometres after the Four Corners Junction.
We
had come to look for Aristolochia boosi, a new
plant described to science in 1981 by Julius
Boos.
Victor Quesnel had suggested that the group
look for this plant in Grande Ravine, where
Boos first found it.
However, we did not get
permission to go into Grande Ravine itself,
so Hans Boos (the brother of Julius) directed
us to a place in the general vicinity where the
plant could be found.
This species was originally collected while
following a female butterfly, Southern Cattle Heart (Parides sesostris), at Palo Seco and Grande Ravine in the
south of Trinidad.
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