Evolution, Variation, and Classification of Palms. Mem (83) NYBG PRESS cycads are the sister group

cycads are the sister group to all other extant seed groups

and endangerment

plus conclusions in the context of the entire hotspot

today cycads comprise few living survivors in limited distributions in the tropics and subtropics

Evolution, Variation, and Classification of Palms. Mem (83) NYBG PRESS cycads are the sister groupThe 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