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Honoring Beekman and Rumphius : proceedings of the 2011 David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration Symposium
- Author / Creator
- Conferences
- David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration Symposium (2011 : Kampong)
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- Creator
- edited by M. Patrick Griffith, guest editor and David H. Lorence
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Kalaheo, HI : National Tropical Botanical Garden, [2014]
- ©2014
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 83 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
- OCLC
- ocn868667263
- TItle from cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Rumphius and Beekman : proceedings of the Symposium for the 2011 David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration / M. Patrick Griffth, guest editor -- Ethnobotany : a 17th-century vision of our 21st-century, world introduction and overview / Bradley C. bennett -- Contacts with Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense / Ghillean T. Prance -- Dutch pre-colonial botany and Rumphius's Ambonese herbal / Pieter Baas and Jan Frits Veldkamp -- The work of Rumphius and Beekman as a tool for drug discovery : examination of the Maldivian coconut / Eric J. Buenz and Brent A. Bauer -- Dangerous plants in the colonial imagination : Rumphius and the poison tree / Michael R. Dove -- The Herbarium Amboinense, from creator to translator / Henk van der Werff and Peter H. Raven -- Economic botany in Indonesia from the Herbarium Amboinense to the plant resources of Southeast Asia / Elizabeth A. Widjaja and Kuswata Kartawinata -- Thoughts on Rumphius and his plants : parallels with neotropical ethnobotany / Bradley C. Bennett