R. Bernal-González
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Name
Rodrigo Bernal-González
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Dates
1959 -
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Specialities
Spermatophytes, Arecaceae
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Roles
Author, Collector, Determiner
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Movement Details
Colombia, England
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Notes
Determiner Notes: Revision of Aiphanes
Author Notes: Revision of Aiphanes
Collector Notes: COL
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Rodrigo Bernal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (27 Dec 2011):
Rodrigo Bernal González (born 1959 in Medellín) is a Colombian botanist who specialises in the palm family. Bernal is a faculty member at the Institute of Natural Sciences, National University of Colombia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Aarhus in 1996. Bernal has published over sixty works on palm systematics and ecology. He has described species in the genera Aiphanes, Astrocaryum, Attalea, Catoblastus, Ceroxylon, Chamaedorea , Geonoma and Socratea and coauthored a field guide to the palms of the Americas.[1] The standard author abbreviation R.Bernal is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]
Bibliography:
Las palmas del Urabá antioqueño (with Gloria Galeano Garcés), 1983
Palmas del departamento do Antioquia : región occidental (with Gloria Galeano Garcés), 1987
Clave sinóptica para los géneros de palmas de Colombia (with Gloria Galeano Garcés), 1988
Guía de las plantas del Parque Regional Natural Ucumari (with Martha Patricia Galeano), 1993
Field guide to the palms of the Americas (with Andrew Henderson; Gloria Galeano), 1995
Natural history of the vegetable ivory palm Phytelephas seemannii in Colombia (PhD Dissertation, Aarhus), 1996
Flora Neotropica Monograph Aiphanes (Palmae) Roystonea (Arecaceae : Arecoideae) Euterpe, Prestoea, and Neonicholsonia (Palmae) (with Finn Borchsenius et alia), 1996
Amaranthaceae (with Carlos Alberto Agudelo-H et alia), 2008 -
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