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The Genus Mikania (Compositae: Eupatorieae) in the Greater Antilles
The Genus Mikania (Compositae: Eupatorieae) in the Greater Antilles
Author:
Walter C. Holmes
SBM 09
ISSN 0883-1475
ISBN-13: 978-1-889878-23-2
Publication Date: 1993
Copyright © 1993 Botanical Research Institute of Texas
Specifications: 7"×10" (pbk), 73 pp., 28 b/w figs., photographs, maps
About the Book
Holmes provides a comprehensive treatment of the thirty-four species of Mikania recognized in the Greater Antillean Islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico. Included is a key to species and full synonymy with typifications, descriptions, specimen citations, and distribution maps for most species. Line illustrations of selected species, a list of numbered collections, and a discussion of taxonomic criteria, distribution, dispersal, interrelationships between species, and list of excluded species are also provided.