New Species of Festuca, Sporobolus, and Eriochloa (Poaceae) from Mesoamerica and South America

As a result of work on the Poaceae for Flora Mesoamericana, the following four new species are described, illustrated, and compared with their closest putative relatives: Festuca talamancensis from the Cordillera de Talamanca in Costa Rica, F. herrerae from the Cordillera de Talamanca in Costa Rica and Panama, Sporobolus distichivaginatus from the Peten, Guatemala, and Eriochloa stevensii from Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Ecuador. In addition to the new species of grasses recently described as the result of a review of the Poaceae for Flora Mesoamericana (Davidse & Pohl, 1992), the following four species were found to be new and are here described, discussed, and illustrated for the first time. As in the earlier paper, the new species are published under the name of the person primarily responsible for the account of the taxon.