Keywords
SYSTEMATIC OCCURRENCE
SALIENT FEATURES
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Abstract
One of the charcteristic features of wet tropical vegetation is the abundance of epiphytes covering the limbs and trunks of the forest trees and hanging in masses from the outer branches. These plants have intrigued botanists since the early days of tropical exploration, yet they remain poorly known both taxonomically and biologically. While numerous book length reviews have appeared in the last decade on such plant associations as mangroves, bog plants, strand plants, and vascular aquatics, there has been no equivalent general review of epiphytes since that of Schimper in 1888. It was hoped that with the founding in 1973 of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, an institution specializing in the study of epiphytes, that this situation would be remedied. The intent of the present paper is to delimit and describe the vascular epiphytes in terms of their systematic composition and their major features.
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