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El Genero Inga En El Ecuador

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This book describes the 75 known Ecuadorian species of Inga (Leguminosae-Mimosoideae). Each species has a short botanical description, a superb full-page line illustration, a distribution map and information on phenology, ecology, actual and potential uses.
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Authors: T. D. Pennington, N. Revelo. 193pp. 245 x 155mm. Paperback, ISBN 9781900347204. Kew Publishing, 1997

This book describes the 75 known Ecuadorian species of Inga (Leguminosae-Mimosoideae). Each species has a short botanical description, a superb full-page line illustration, a distribution map and information on phenology, ecology, actual and potential uses. There is an introductory chapter on utilization, species selection, seed collection and storage, propagation and management.

Also included is a key for the identification of species, glossary of botanical terms, list of herbarium specimens studied and indexes of scientific and vernacular names. The text is in Spanish.

 

Terence D. Pennington is a British botanist who worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew between 1989 - 1998. The focus of his work and collecting has been the taxonomy and floristics of tropical American trees and biodiversity in the Amazonian rainforest. 

Natalia Revelo works in the Department of Entomology at San Diego Natural History Museum.

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