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Edgardo Ortiz B..A.: Universidad Nacional de San Agustin de Arequipa, Peru.
Ph.D.: In progress
Contact: e.m.ortiz at mail.utexas.edu Edgardo started in the Ph.D. program in Plant Biology in the Fall of 2009. He is interested in plants that grow in inconvenient places. |
Edgardo perches in the cloud forest of the Yanachaga Chemillen National Park, Peru. | |
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Among several novelties Edgardo has encountered in the treetops is a new species of Demosthenesia (Vaccinieae: Ericaceaee). |