Book ID: 28667
Mitchell, John D. and Scott A. Mori
The Cashew and its Relatives (Ana- cardium: Anacardiaceae). 1987. (Mem.N.Y.Bot.Gdn.,42). 1 col.plate. 22 figs. 3 dot maps. 76 p.gr8vo. Paper bd.
A taxonomic treatment of Anacardium L., a Latin American genus of trees, shrubs, and geoxylic subshrubs, is provided. The authors recognize tenspecies,one of which, A.fruticosum Mitchell & Mori, is described as new.Data from several thousand herbarium sheets, extensive field work,SEM-studies of pollen and leaves, and a review of the anatomicalliterature forms the basis of this modern revision.