Palms of New Guinea

The book follows contemporary classifications and is richly illustrated with line drawings and photographs throughout. Each group has a family description and key to the New Guinea palm genera, followed by a description of each genus, with notes on taxonomy, distribution, ecology and diagnostic characters.

CONTENTS

FOREWORD by Dominggus Mandacan (for Indonesia) vii
FOREWORD by Kipiro Damas (for Papua New Guinea) viii
PREFACE ix
ABOUT THE AUTHORS xi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii
ABOUT THIS BOOK xvi

1. INTRODUCTION TO NEW GUINEA AND ITS FLORA 1
2. NEW GUINEA PALMS IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT 5
3. EXPLORING THE NEW GUINEA PALM FLORA 13
4. DESCRIPTION AND DOCUMENTATION OF THE PALMS OF NEW GUINEA 19
5. DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY OF PALMS IN NEW GUINEA 27
6. ETHNOBOTANY OF PALMS IN NEW GUINEA 41
7. EXTINCTION RISK AND NEW GUINEA PALMS 49

TAXONOMIC ACCOUNT (Individual Species accounts) 56

APPENDIX 1 – Checklist of the palms of the New Guinea region 679
APPENDIX 2 – Checklists of the palms of subdivisions of the New Guinea region 687
APPENDIX 3 – Useful palm species in New Guinea 694
BIBLIOGRAPHY 701
INDEX 717