New Directions in the Study of Plants and People. Adv Econ Bot (8) NYBG PRESS This volume is the first

This volume is the first thorough treatment of Theophrastaceae since 1903

and specimens examined

and has a distribution strictly in the New World tropics

In Bolivia there are 260 members of this tribe

New Directions in the Study of Plants and People. Adv Econ Bot (8) NYBG PRESS This volume is the firstThese papers provide a rich and diverse sampling of research conducted by the staff and collaborators of the Institute of Economic Botany of The New York Botanical Garden. Most of the papers focus on promising yet underexploited neotropical resources and on alternative solutions to modes of economic development that have led to acute deforestation in the humid tropics.