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(American Journal of Botany. 1999;86:COVER-cover.)
© 1999 Botanical Society of
America, Inc.
Cover Illustration: Fruiting capsule of a Pachiraspecies from Estado Amazonas, Venezuela, which has been opened to show its large, floatable seeds. The seeds of other species in this genus of tropical trees are smaller and surrounded by dense, non-wettable hairs. Pachirais a member of the traditional family Bombacaceae, which like the Sterculiaceae and Tiliaceae has been found to be non-monophyletic. See Alverson et al.: Phylogeny of the core Malvales: evidence from ndhFsequence data, pp. 1474–1486 in this issue. Photo credit: Gustavo A. Romero.
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