Evolution, Variation, and Classification of Palms. Mem (83) NYBG PRESS plus conclusions in the context

plus conclusions in the context of the entire hotspot

The two groups come into contact only in southern Central America and in the West Indies

cycads are the sister group to all other extant seed groups

by David B

The 269 botanical illustrations

Evolution, Variation, and Classification of Palms. Mem (83) NYBG PRESS plus conclusions in the contextThe 26 papers in this volume were originally presented at a meeting of the same title, held at The New York Botanical Garden in June 1997. The conference was divided into four sections: sepcies and species concepts; species level data, species level case studies; and higher level classification. Held ten years after the publication of Genera Palmarum, the meeting drew together the best known palm researchers to reflect on the veritable explosion of