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- Written by the world-leading authority on the genus Humiraceae
- The previous authoritative treatment of Humiraceae was published in 1961, many new species were described and specimens were collected since then
- Includes 32 black and white illustrations, with maps for all species and line drawings of species of all genera
Part of the book series: Flora Neotropica (FN, volume 123)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK
Ghillean T. Prance
About the author
Sir Ghillean holds fifteen honorary doctorates and in 1993 received the International COSMOS Prize and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was knighted in July 1995 and received the Victoria Medal of Honour from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1999. He received the David Fairchild Medal for plant exploration jointly with his wife Anne in 2000, and the Allerton Award in 2005. In 2000 he was made a Commander of the Order of the Southern Cross by the President of Brazil and in 2012 received the Order of the Rising Sun from Japan. He continues to be active with research in plant systematics and in conservation of the tropical rainforest. He chairs, the Mass Extinction Memorial Observatory (MEMO), and was chairman of the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest Trust (1999-2012) and A Rocha International (2008-2013). He is President of The Wildflower Society, Nature in Art and the International Tree Foundation and the Patron of several other organisations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Humiriaceae
Authors: Ghillean T. Prance
Series Title: Flora Neotropica
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82359-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82358-0Published: 13 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82361-0Published: 14 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82359-7Published: 01 January 2022
Series ISSN: 0071-5794
Series E-ISSN: 2330-202X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 241
Topics: Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Sciences, Plant Pathology, Plant Ecology, Biodiversity