Palms of Southern Asia

Description

Southern Asia is a vast and ecologically diverse region that extends from the deserts of Afghanistan to the rainforests of Thailand, and is home to a marvelously rich palm flora. This title deals with the 43 genera and 352 species of palms and rattans that occur in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Laos, and Myanmar.

Andrew Henderson is a curator at the Institute of Systematic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden. His books include "Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas" and "Flowering Plants of the Neotropics" (both Princeton).

"This field guide by Henderson includes all 352 naturally occurring palm species in the region ranging from Afghanistan to Japan, south through India and Thailand... The book is well organized and designed, and certainly small enough for fieldwork."--Choice "This is truly a field guide with descriptions that give field characters that will make it easy to identify species... This is a guide that is obviously based on extensive field work by the author and is user friendly. A most useful addition for anyone interested in palms."--Ghillean Prance, Biologist "The Palms of Southern Asia is going to be an extremely useful book that will earn Henderson immense respect and gratitude in the region and throughout the botanical community."--William J. Baker, Kew Bulletin