Art by Alice Tangerini: Erato costaricensis E. Moran & V.A. Funk

From Plant Press, Vol. 23, No. 1, January 2020.

Known only from Costa Rica and Panama, Erato costaricensis (Compositae) grows in wet forest, forested hillsides, and along roadsides. This illustration is representative of Vicki Funk’s passion for mentoring young scientists, especially women, and work in the family she studied during her career, Compositae, especially in Latin America. The research paper, published in Systematic Botany (31: 597-609; 2006 https://doi.org/10.1600/036364406778388728), was done by Emily Moran as part of the Research Training Program at the National Museum of Natural History, which was funded by the National Science Foundation. Alice Tangerini illustrated this drawing in polycarbonate pencil on drafting film to match the media of a previous drawing, Erato polymnioides, completed in 1976.