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Michael H. Grayum, Ph.D., Curator
Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299
USA Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis

office phone: + 1-314-577-9519
fax: +1-314-577-9596
email: michael.grayum@mobot.org

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1984
B.A., California State University, Northridge, 1972

General Research Interests

  • Costa Rican floristics
  • Systematics of Araceae
  • Systematics of Arecaceae
  • Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica
  • Research Emphases

  • Systematics of Philodendron subgenus Pteromischum (Araceae)
  • Floristics of Costa Rica (especially monocots)
  • Systematics of Central American Arecaceae
  • Systematics of Central American Piperaceae
  • Selected Publications

  • 2006. The identity and typification of Guarea hoffmanniana C. DC. (Meliaceae). Taxon 55: 1005–1008.
  • 2005.  Bryophytes of the Santa Elena Peninsula and Islas Murciélago, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with special attention to neotropical dry forest habitats.  Lankesteriana 5: 53-61.  (with G. Dauphin L.).
  • 2003.  Arecaceae.  Pp. 201-293 in, B. E. Hammel, M. H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.), Manual de plantas de Costa Rica.  Vol. II.  Gimnospermas y monocotiledóneas (Agavaceae-Musaceae).  Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 92: 1-694.
  • 2003.  Araceae.  Pp. 59-200 in, B. E. Hammel, M. H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.), Manual de plantas de Costa Rica.  Vol. II.  Gimnospermas y monocotiledóneas (Agavaceae–Musaceae).  Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 92: 1-694.
  • 2002.  Vegetación del Parque Nacional Carara, Costa Rica.  Brenesia 57-58: 25-66.  (with Q. Jiménez M.).
  • 1996.  Revision of Philodendron subgenus Pteromischum (Araceae) for Pacific and Caribbean tropical America.  Syst. Bot. Monogr. 47: 1-233.
  • 1992.  Comparative external pollen ultrastructure of the Araceae and putatively related taxa.  Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 43: 1-167.
  • 1991.  Systematic embryology of the Araceae.  Bot. Rev. (Lancaster) 57: 167-203.
  • 1990.  Evolution and phylogeny of the Araceae.  Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 77: 628-697
  • This page was last revised 05/26/09.

     

     
     
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