Rivito, Dean 2006 Journal Ridge above El Rincon, Depto. San Marcos, Guatemala Aug. 26 After breakfast, the Wakes and Carlos went to Buena Vista (W of San Marcos) while Gabriela, Ted, Antonio and I drove to the village of El Rincon, just W of San Marcos on RN1. We turned off on a road that led up to the low point on the ridge (the "saddle") where many B. rostrata were collected in the 1970s. We parked where the road became impassible and hiked up to the saddle. We started searching at the top at 1030, but the habitat no longer looked good for B. rostrata. The formerly open areas had become overgrown with bushes and there was almost nothing to turn. We walked south and came to an area with some bromeliads. The first one we opened had a B. moris in it (14.9574°N, 91.85475°W [WGS84, 10m acc.], 2836m elar). Antonio found 2 more in a mass of fern rhizomes (like a rotten log) nearby. We continued south along a path through secondary forest and found 4 B. moris under rocks and 1 Theopsis morelata (14.95547°N, 91.84607°W [WGS84, 19m acc.], 2789m elar). Further down, we found 1 B. moris and 2 small B. lincolni under rocks along the path (14.95289°N, 91.84604°W [WGS84, 10m acc.], 2779m elar). The banks along the path looked good for Pseudocryaea but we didn't find any. We finally arrived in a planted cypress area with many bromeliads. I found 1 B. lincolni under the bark of a fence post (14.95094°N, 91.84686°W [WGS84, 15m acc.], 2766m elar). We pulled down bromeliads out of a cypress and found a tiny Baardstrita bromeliacea that was missing its tail. We then got ~10 more bromeliads from a large hardwood tree and found 4 more D. bromeliacea. I got 2 more bromeliads from a