By C.C. Berg, R. W. A. P. Akkermans, E. C. H. van Heusden
This name is monograph fifty one within the vegetation Neotropica sequence. This monograph offers revisions of 2 of the neotropical genera of the Cecropiaceae: forty six species (15 new) of Coussapoa and 25 species (4 new) of Pourouma.
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