The Palm-Tree of Life: Biology, Utilization, and Conservation. Adv Econ Bot (6) books This volume reports the results

This volume reports the results of studies to ascertain whether there are discontinuities meriting the recognition of separate taxa in Thlaspi in North America

and barrelling rivers to document and collect hundreds of thousands of botanical specimens

subtribe Nassauviinae) has two centers of diversity

a group of some 250 (233 American) species characterized by the syndrome of bracteolate pedicels

The Palm-Tree of Life: Biology, Utilization, and Conservation. Adv Econ Bot (6) books This volume reports the resultsPalms play important and often multiple roles in the economies of many tropical and subtropical countries. This collection of twenty one papers is divided into four sections: a taxonomic overview of palms; the reproductive biology, ecology, and physiology of certain economically useful palms; the utilization of palms; and the conservation of palms. Ethnobotanical and domestication studies of palms are particularly well represented.