Academic Work

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Sustainable Development Goals

Research interests

• Biodiversity studies
• Plant Taxonomy and Systematics
• Floristic studies
• Distribution and endemism of Mexican Plants
• Plant Morphology

Profile

Professor Ana Rosa Lopez Ferrari has a Master degree in Sciences, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Profesor at the Biology Departament at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa Campus; where she has worked for 35 years.
Botany with a main line of research is Taxonomy and Systematics. For more than 25 years, she has dedicated herself to studying Mexican monocotyledons and currently developing research projects about the Bromeliads of Mexico and Epiphytic Vascular Plants of the country. Professor López Ferrari has published the results of her work in specialized, refereed, and indexed journals or books and has participated in national and international academic forums.
She is a Member of tutorial committees for undergraduate and graduate students; she has collaborated in divisional and sponsored research projects and some other projects with foreign colleagues, with inter-institutional financing, and is head of Herbario Metropolitano Ramón Riba y Nava Esparza, a divisional scientific collection of the UAM, at Iztapalapa Campus.

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Research interests

• Biodiversity studies
• Plant Taxonomy and Systematics
• Floristic studies
• Distribution and endemism of Mexican Plants
• Plant Morphology

Academic Work

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Open Access	References	UN SDGs
OA	Hernández-Cárdenas, R.A., Espejo-Serna, A., López-Ferrari, A.R. and 2 more (...) (2025).Thyrsanthemum latibracteatum (Commelinaceae), a new species from Guerrero, Mexico. Kew Bulletin,80(3) 653-661
OA	Martorell, C., García-Meza, D., Bustamante-García, R. and 22 more (...) (2025).Biodiversity of the temperate prairies of northern Oaxaca, Mexico. Botanical Sciences,103(1) 272-294	\| 15 \|
OA	Hernández-Cárdenas, R.A., Espejo-Serna, A., López-Ferrari, A.R. and 3 more (...) (2024).HECHTIA CERROSTLATILPAE (HECHTIOIDEAE; BROMELIACEAE), A NEW SPECIES FROM MORELOS, MEXICO. Botanical Sciences,102(4) 1353-1362
OA	Hernández-Cárdenas, R.A., Flores-Argüelles, A., Espejo-Serna, A. and 2 more (...) (2024).Hechtia marabascoensis (Hechtioideae; Bromeliaceae), a novelty from Colima and Jalisco, Mexico. Phytotaxa,659(1) 87-96
OA	Flores-Argüelles, A., Hernández-Cárdenas, R.A., Rosales-Martínez, S. and 3 more (...) (2024).Two new species of Hechtia (Bromeliaceae; Hechtioideae) from Jalisco, Mexico. Plant Ecology and Evolution,157(1) 20-31
OA	Hernández-Cárdenas, R.A., Flores-Argüelles, A., Espejo-Serna, A. and 3 more (...) (2024).Tillandsia tequilana (Tillandsioideae; Bromeliaceae), a new saxicolous species from Jalisco, Mexico. Phytotaxa,659(2) 105-111
	González-Rocha, E., López-Ferrari, A.R., Espejo-Serna, A. and 1 more (...) (2024).Novelties in Pitcairnia (Bromeliaceae; Pitcairnioideae): three new species from Mexico. Phytotaxa,660(3) 205-224
	Estrada-Sánchez, I., Espejo-Serna, A., García-Cruz, J. and 1 more (...) (2024).Richness, distribution, and endemism of neotropical subtribe Ponerinae (Orchidaceae, Epidendreae). Revista Brasileira de Botanica,47(2) 501-517	\| 15 \|
OA	Hernández-Cárdenas, R.A., Espejo-Serna, A., López-Ferrari, A.R. and 2 more (...) (2023).Viridantha minuscula (Tillandsioideae; Bromeliaceae), a new species from Guanajuato, Mexico. Phytotaxa,607(1) 1-7
OA	Flores-Argüelles, A., López-Ferrari, A.R., Espejo-Serna, A. (2023).GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION AND ENDEMISM OF BROMELIACEAE FROM THE WESTERN SIERRA-COAST REGION OF JALISCO, MEXICO. Botanical Sciences,101(2) 527-543	\| 8\| 12\| 14\| 15 \|
OA	Martorell, C., López-Ferrari, A.R., Espejo-Serna, A. and 2 more (...) (2023).Ainea conzattii (Iridaceae: Tigridieae) revisited: description of a new variety. Phytotaxa,600(1) 1-6
OA	Hernández-Cárdenas, R.A., López-Ferrari, A.R., Espejo-Serna, A. and 1 more (...) (2023).VASCULAR FLORA OF SANTOS REYES TEPEJILLO MUNICIPALITY, OAXACA, MEXICO. Botanical Sciences,101(2) 560-590
OA	Téllez-Baños, B.E., Gomez-Escamilla, I.N., Navarrete-Jiménez, A. and 2 more (...) (2023).FLORAL VISITORS OF THREE SPECIES OF CORALLORHIZA IN MONTE TLÁLOC, TEXCOCO, ESTADO DE MÉXICO, MEXICO. Lankesteriana,23(3) 457-468
OA	Hernández-Cárdenas, R.A., Espejo-Serna, A., López-Ferrari, A.R. and 1 more (...) (2023).Tillandsia bernalensis (Tillandsioideae; Bromeliaceae), a new species from the state of Querétaro, Mexico. Phytotaxa,583(1) 91-98
	Hernández-Cárdenas, R.A., Espejo-Serna, A., López-Ferrari, A.R. and 1 more (...) (2023).Hechtia kruseana and Hechtia rosamariae (Bromeliaceae; Hechtioideae), two new species from Guerrero, Mexico. Nordic Journal of Botany,2023(7)
OA	Flores-Argüelles, A., Espejo-Serna, A., López-Ferrari, A.R. and 1 more (...) (2022).Diversity and Vertical Distribution of Epiphytic Angiosperms, in Natural and Disturbed Forest on the Northern Coast of Jalisco, Mexico. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change,5	\| 14\| 15 \|
OA	Hernández-Cárdenas, R.A., Siekkinen, A., Espejo-Serna, A. and 1 more (...) (2022).Seven New Species of Hechtia (Bromeliaceae; Hechtioideae) from Puebla, Mexico. Systematic Botany,47(1) 190-207
OA	Flores-Argüelles, A., López-Ferrari, A.R., González-Rocha, E. and 1 more (...) (2022).Pitcairnia abscondita (Pitcairnioideae, Bromeliaceae), a hidden novelty from north-western Jalisco, Mexico. PhytoKeys,189129-139
	Hernández-Cárdenas, R.A., López-Ferrari, A.R., Espejo-Serna, A. (2022).Tradescantia mixtecana (Commelinaceae) a novelty from Oaxaca, Mexico. Kew Bulletin,77(4) 915-921
OA	Hernández-Cárdenas, R.A., Espejo-Serna, A., López-Ferrari, A.R. (2021).Two new species of Viridantha (Tillandsioideae; Bromeliaceae). Phytotaxa,520(1) 97-105
OA	Espejo-Serna, A., López-Ferrari, A.R., Mendoza-Ruiz, A. and 3 more (...) (2021).Mexican vascular epiphytes: Richness and distribution. Phytotaxa,503(1) 1-124
	Hernández-Barón, G.M., Hernández-Barón, L.J., López-Ferrari, A.R. (2021).Gonolobus espejoi (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae), a New Species from Veracruz, Mexico. Systematic Botany,46(2) 422-426
	Hernández-Barón, L.J., Espejo-Serna, A., López-Ferrari, A.R. and 1 more (...) (2021).Amyris conzattii Standl. (Rutaceae), a case of false identity. Brittonia,73(2) 236-240
OA	Krömer, T., Espejo-Serna, A., López-Ferrari, A.R. and 3 more (...) (2021).The epiphytic angiosperms of the state of Veracruz, Mexico: Diversity and distribution. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad,91	\| 15 \|
	Aguilar-Rodríguez, P.A., Jiménez, P.D., Espejo-Serna, A. and 5 more (...) (2020).A new Werauhia (Tillandsioideae, Bromeliaceae) from Mexico with observations about its reproductive biology. Phytotaxa,446(2) 128-134
OA	Rivera-Hernández, J.E., Vargas-Rueda, A.F., Torres-Cantú, G.B. and 4 more (...) (2020).Additions to the Bromeliaceae family in Veracruz, Mexico. Acta Botanica Mexicana,(127)
OA	Flores-Argüelles, A., López-Ferrari, A.R., Espejo-Serna, A. (2020).Aechmea novoae (Bromeliaceae, Bromelioideae), a Novelty from the State of Jalisco, Mexico. Novon,28(4) 281-287

Courses taught by the professor in recent trimesters

*Courses are conducted in spanish

Num.	Trim.	Course Name	Level
1	25O	Proyecto de Investigación III	Licenciatura
2	25O	Monocotiledóneas de México	Licenciatura
3	25P	Biología de Plantas II	Licenciatura
4	25P	Proyecto de Investigación II	Licenciatura
5	25I	Biología de Plantas II	Licenciatura
6	25I	Proyecto de Investigación I	Licenciatura
7	23P	Biología de Plantas II	Licenciatura
8	23I	Biología de Plantas II	Licenciatura
9	22O	Sistemática y Taxonomía	Licenciatura
10	22P	Biología de Plantas II	Licenciatura
11	22I	Proyecto de Investigación III	Licenciatura
12	22I	Biología de Plantas II	Licenciatura

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