Natalie W. Uhl
Contributor
Emeritus Professor of Botany, Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Coauthor of Genera Palmarum: A Classification of Palms Based on the Work of Harold E. Moore, Jr.
Primary Contributions (1)
Palm, (family Arecaceae), family of nearly 190 genera and more than 2,450 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants (order Arecales). Members of the palm family are of major ecological importance to many tropical ecosystems and provide food and habitat to a wide range of wildlife. Economically,β¦
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