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  1. Arizona-Sonora desert museum tucson, 85743, AZ

    Daniel F. Austin

  2. Instituto nacional de pesquisas da Amazônia manaus, Amazonas, Brasil

    Charles R. Clement

  3. Missouri botanical garden, 63166-0299, St. Louis, MO

    Wendy Applequist

  4. Ferris state University big rapids, 49307, MI

    Robert J. Krueger

  5. Wellesley College Wellesley, 02481, MA

    My Lien T. Nguyen

  6. PASO, 508 EL, 78704, St. Austin, TX

    Rainer W. Bussmann

  7. Applied Biology Department University Miguel Hernández, 03312, Orihuela, Alicante, Spain

    Concepción Obón

  8. Plant Biology Department University of Murcia Murcia, Spain

    Diego Rivera

  9. Missouri Botanical Garden, 63166-0299, St. Louis, MO

    Dorothea Bedigian

  10. Heidelberg College tiffin, 44883, OH, USA

    Susan Carty

  11. Old Dominion University Norfolk, 23529-0266, Virginia

    Lytton John Musselman

  12. Universiteit Gent Belgium Patrick, Belgium

    Patrick Van Damme

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Austin, D.F., Clement, C.R., Applequist, W. et al. Book reviews. Econ Bot 61, 99–108 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02862376

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