Trisetella pachycaudata, a new species in the subtribe Pleurothallidinae, was discovered Zamora Chinchipe province of southeast Ecuador, and it is described here. pachycaudata compared with most similar (and others which has been confused cultivation), T. triglochin, strumosa, vittata. It differs from them flowers much thicker apex sepaline tails (the thickest genus), petals expanded at labella...

Arsenic-contaminated soil is one of the major arsenic sources for drinking water. Phytoremediation, an emerging, plant-based technology for the removal of toxic contaminants from soil and water, has been receiving renewed attention. Although a number of plants have been identified as hyperaccumulators for the phytoextraction of a variety of metals, and some have been used in field applications,...

Intensive botanical exploration of the Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) for the Vascular Flora of the Marquesas Islands and Flore de la Polynésie française projects has resulted in numerous additional new collections from these islands. Study of these collections has brought to light 11 new species of pteridophytes (ferns and lycophytes) which are described herein: Blechnum pacificum Lorenc...

A new species of the suckermouth armored catfish genus Peckoltia is described from the lower Ventuari River, a tributary of the upper Orinoco River in Amazonas State, Venezuela. Specimens of this species were formerly included in the wide-ranging Amazonian species Peckoltia vittata, but a recent molecular phylogeny found Orinoco individuals to be distantly related to Amazon Basin individuals sp...

Abstract Peppermint shrimp resembling Lysmata vittataStimpson, 1860, a species native to the Indo-West Pacific, were found in lower Chesapeake Bay and adjacent coastal embayments 2013, representing first recorded introduction of this northwestern Atlantic. Conflicting morphological descriptions, inconsistent terminology, limited molecular data (i.e., unresolved taxonomy), as well destruction ty...