Staff Recognition

From Plant Press, Vol. 3, No. 4, October 2000.

Trixis pruskii Hind (Compositae: Mutisieae), a new species of tree from Bahia, Brazil, was published recently in Kew Bulletin 55: 381-386. 2000. The plant was dedicated by Nicholas Hind of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to "John Pruski of the Botany Department, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, a fellow synantherologist and collaborator." Pruski has named four new species of Mutisieae and also revised a related group of Mutisieae occurring north of the Amazon River in a paper entitled "The Mutisieae of the Lost World of Brazil, Colombia, and Guyana" (Bol. Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Sér. Botânica 7: 335-392. 1991).