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Six new tree species named: 3 from Panama, 3 from Colombia

Found in Panama’s Chagres National Park, Maticia aquilarum was named after the nest of a harpy eagle in its tree. Credit: STRI Herbarium Botanist José Luis Fernández Alonso of the Royal Botanical Garden in Madrid and research engineer Ernesto Campos of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama, based on comparisons made between collections of dry herbarium from Madrid.…