New and Noteworthy Asteraceae from Panama

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New and Noteworthy in Nutrition (NNN)

SOUTHERN AFRICA “In a little town not far from where I live, children suck salt to make themselves thirsty. Their thirst makes them drink more water and this fills their stomachs and helps to suppress the hunger in their bellies. It is almost beyond belief that three years ago Zimbabwe was called the breadbasket of Africa” (excerpt from Zimbabwean farmer, Cathy Buckle’s online journal, 22 Febru...

Scorzonera incisa (Asteraceae), as a new record from NW Iran

Scorzonera incisa, known as an endemic plant to Turkey, has been collected from West Azarbayejan Province, NW. Iran. The species is reported for the first time from the country; it is very similar to Scorzonera calyculata, which is distributed in the western half of Iran and east of Iraq. However, with regard to the particular shape of the achenes of Scorzonera incisa, this species could be sep...

Descriptions of New Bats from Panama

In its studies of tropical diseases, the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory of Panama is conducting a mammal surve3r of the Republic. The work in 1959 centered on the headwaters of the Rio Pucro, near Cerro Tacarcuna, Province of Darien, eastern Panama. Among the mammals collected on the Rio Pucro were 43 species of bats, all caught in mist nets. Many of these species had not been taken previously in C...

New Earlymiocene Protoceratids (mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Panama

Although Cenozoic protoceratid artiodactyls are known from throughout North America, species referred to the Miocene protoceratine Paratoceras are restricted to subtropical areas of the Gulf Coast and southern Mexico and tropical areas of Panama. Newly discovered fossils from the late Arikareean Lirio Norte Local Fauna, Panama Canal basin, include partial dentitions of a protoceratid remarkably...