Credits

Authorship of individual groups

Asclepiadoideae: Werner Greuter, Rosa Rankin Rodríguez & Sigrid Liede-Schumann
Convolvulaceae: Werner Greuter, Rosa Rankin Rodríguez & Hermann Manitz
Gesneriaceae: Werner Greuter, Rosa Rankin Rodríguez & John Clark
Lamiaceae: Werner Greuter, Rosa Rankin Rodríguez & Isidro Méndez Santos
Magnoliaceae: Werner Greuter, Rosa Rankin Rodríguez & Alejandro Palmarola Bejerano
Malpighiaceae: Werner Greuter, Rosa Rankin Rodríguez & Pedro González Gutiérrez
Orchidaceae: Werner Greuter, Rosa Rankin Rodríguez & Alelí Morales Martínez
Oxalidaceae: Werner Greuter, Rosa Rankin Rodríguez & Rosalina Berazaín Iturralde
Solanaceae: Werner Greuter, Rosa Rankin Rodríguez & Victor Fuentes Fiallo†
Zygophyllaceae: Werner Greuter, Rosa Rankin Rodríguez & Delhy Albert Puentes
Other groups: Werner Greuter & Rosa Rankin Rodríguez

Acknowledgements

Apart from the above-mentioned specialists who accepted co-authorship of several groups, we obtained the help of others who revised drafts of our treatments and let us have their comments and suggestions: Eldis Bécquer Granados on the Melastomataceae family, Banessa Falcón Hidalgo on Phyllanthus, and Alexandre Monroe on Urticaceae. Bruno Wallnöfer sent us his papers on Diospyros with plentiful distribution data for the Cuban species.

Two institutions supported our project unconditionally: the National Botanic Garden of Havana University and the Botanical Garden and Museum of the Free University of Berlin. We thank their respective directors, Nora Hernandez Monterrey and Thomas Borsch, and also Walter Berendsohn, who leads the Research Department of the Berlin Museum. Members of the Biodiversity Informatics Research Group, and particularly Andreas Müller, Andreas Kohlbecker and Fabian Reimeier, experts of the arcane world of computing, were wonderfully attentive and effective while implementing the transposition of our data into a format suitable for presentation on the screen.