Other palm research at the
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Palms have been the subject of intensive research at the Department of Systematic Botany for a number of years. | ||||||
The herbarium houses large collections of around 5000 specimens palms collected mainly in South America and
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We have also received many thousand palm-specimens on loan for study and information gathered from these specimens have been accumulated in various databases. | ||||||
The studies have covered a broad spectrum from taxonomy, systematics, anatomy, community ecology, pollination, reproductive ecology, etc, and a vast knowledge base, covering many aspects of palm biology is available at our department. | ||||||
Specimen from the Aphandra natalia holotype | ||||||
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