Instructor

Gerald Guala
Herbarium
Fairchild Tropical Garden Research Center (Where the class meets)
11935 Old Cutler Rd.
Miami, FL 33156

Email: Stinger@fiu.edu
Phone: 305 667-1651 ex. 3418
Fax: 305 665-8036

Office Hours Wednesday 3-5pm
 

Course Objectives:

This course is designed to be one of the essential (and required) courses in the Graduate Program in Tropical Plant Systematics.  This course will teach students how to be a plant systematist.  It is much broader in scope than PCB 5616 (Applied Phylogenetics) and has more of a plant emphasis.  It also goes beyond the applied emphasis in BOT 4723 (Taxonomy of  Tropical Plants) by integrating more basic theory and concentrating more on plant groups that are globally and theoretically important rather than identification of locally abundant families.
 

SYLLABUS
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