Evolution, Variation, and Classification of Palms. Mem (83) NYBG PRESS Sanderson re-creates the forests of

Sanderson re-creates the forests of Times Square

and endangerment

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

Evolution, Variation, and Classification of Palms. Mem (83) NYBG PRESS Sanderson re-creates the forests ofThe 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