Rodrigo Bernal

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Rodrigo Bernal (born 1959 in Medellín) is a Colombian botanist who specialises in the palm family. Bernal is a faculty member at the Institute of Natural Sciences, National University of Colombia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Aarhus in 1996.

Bernal has published over sixty works on palm systematics and ecology. He has described species in the genera Aiphanes, Astrocaryum, Attalea, Catoblastus, Ceroxylon, Chamaedorea , Geonoma and Socratea and coauthored a field guide to the palms of the Americas.[1]

The standard author abbreviation R.Bernal is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

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  1. ^ Henderson, Andrew; Gloria Galeano; Rodrigo Bernal (1995). Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08537-4. 
  2. ^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4. 

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