Rodrigo Bernal
Rodrigo Bernal González (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]
Bibliography
- Las palmas del Urabá antioqueño (with Gloria Galeano Garcés), 1983
- Palmas del departamento do Antioquia : región occidental (with Gloria Galeano Garcés), 1987
- Clave sinóptica para los géneros de palmas de Colombia (with Gloria Galeano Garcés), 1988
- Guía de las plantas del Parque Regional Natural Ucumari (with Martha Patricia Galeano), 1993
- Field guide to the palms of the Americas (with Andrew Henderson; Gloria Galeano), 1995
- Natural history of the vegetable ivory palm Phytelephas seemannii in Colombia (PhD Dissertation, Aarhus), 1996
- Flora Neotropica Monograph Aiphanes (Palmae) Roystonea (Arecaceae : Arecoideae) Euterpe, Prestoea, and Neonicholsonia (Palmae) (with Finn Borchsenius et alia), 1996
- Amaranthaceae (with Carlos Alberto Agudelo-H et alia), 2008
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