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  1. Department of Natural Sciences, 1525 Bernice Street, B. P. Bishop Museum, 96817-2704, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.

    George Staples

  2. Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, 409 Carpenter Building, 16802, University Park, PA

    Lee Newsom

  3. Department of Biology, Washington University, 63130, St. Louis, MO

    Barbara Schaal & Walter H. Lewis

  4. Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy The School of Pharmacy, University of London, WC1N 1AX, London, UK

    Andrea Pieroni

  5. Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, TX, USA

    Kevin D. Janni

  6. Consulting phytotoxicologist, 49056, Grand Junction, MI

    Sarah Delle Hultmark

  7. Biology Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 96822, Honolulu, Hawaii

    Mark D. Merlin

  8. Dept. Biology, Eastern College, 19087-3696, St. Davids, PA

    David Unander

  9. Lafayette Natural History Museum and Planetarium, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 70504-3331, Lafayette, Louisiana

    Deborah J. Clifton

  10. Department of Systematic Botany, University of Aarhus, Denmark

    Henrik Balslev

  11. Research Associate, Missouri Botanical Garden and Washington University, St. Louis

    Dorothea Bedigian

  12. Department of Horticulture, The Pennsylvania State University, 16801, State College, PA

    Eric Burkhart

  13. Environmental Law and Policy, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada

    Kelly P. Bannister

  14. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM, Brasil

    Charles R. Clement

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Staples, G., Newsom, L., Schaal, B. et al. Book reviews. Econ Bot 56, 95–106 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1663/0013-0001(2002)056[0095:CHFSSG]2.0.CO;2

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