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)