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Editors:

• Urs Eggli⁰,
• Reto Nyffeler¹

1. Urs Eggli

   1. Sukkulenten-Sammlung Zürich, Grün Stadt Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
      

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2. Reto Nyffeler

   1. Institut für Systematische und Evolutionäre Botanik (ISEB), Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
      

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This second edition provides a comprehensive list of the latest taxonomy including the updated relevant plant data. All succulent species of the monocotyledonous plant families and genera are described in detail.

This work will be particularly useful to botanists, plant taxonomists and scholars as well as to herbaria and botanic gardens. It will also appeal to the committed collector of succulent plants, horticultural cognoscenti and succulent plant lovers.

• Agave
• Aloe
• Amaryllidaceae
• Bromeliceae
• Bulbine
• Desert plants
• Ericaceae
• Haworthia
• Hyacinthaceae
• Orchidaceae
• Plant systematics
• Sansevieria
• Yucca
• Systematic Botany

• Sukkulenten-Sammlung Zürich, Grün Stadt Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  Urs Eggli

• Institut für Systematische und Evolutionäre Botanik (ISEB), Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  Reto Nyffeler

Dr. Reto Nyffelerstudied biology at the University of Zürich. In 1997 he received a doctor’s degree with a Ph.D. thesis on the systematics of the tribeNotocacteae (Cactaceae) from South America. Subsequently, he spent 4 years as a postdoctoral student at Harvard University and Stanford University and conducted during that stay the first comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study ofCactaceae. Since 2002 he is curator for the vascular plant collections at the United Herbaria of the University and ETH Zurich, and he is a lecturer for plant systematics at the Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich. His research focuses on the systematics of succulent plants and on the history of botany. During the past two decades he published several papers on succulents from different plant families in collaboration with Dr. Urs Eggli.

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