Luis Jorge Poveda Alvarez, Costa Rican botanist and plant chemist (Turrialba 06 December 1945 –

Authored over 70 scientific works

DESCRIBED PLANTAE SPECIES

Caryodaphnopsis burgeri 1988 with Zamora

Coccoloba bejuco 1991 with Sanchez

Copaifera camibar 1989 with Zamora & Sanchez

Croton corinthius 2003 with Gonzalez

Croton megistocarpus 2003 with Gonzalez

Eugenia glandulosopunctata 1986 with Sanchez

Ficus lasiosyce 2003 with Gonzalez

Guettarda turrialbana 1988 with Zamora

Hoffmannia stephaniae 2004 with Gonzalez

Hymenaea osanigraseminae 2018 with Aguilar & Santamaria

Inga coprocarpa 1991 with Zamora

Jatropha costaricensis 1978 with Webster

Krugiodendron acuminatum 2003 with Gonzalez

Pouteria lecythidicarpa 1991 with Sanchez

Roldana scandens 1992 with Kappelle

Sclerolobium costaricense 1991 with Zamora

Unonopsis theobromifolia 1988 with Zamora

Verbesina tapantiana 1990 with Hammel

HONORS

Povedadaphne Burger 1988 (Lauraceae)