About the Authors

David W. Morris, Ph.D. and Marta Zetina Morris, M.A.

This husband and wife field botanist team have more than 30 years of plant identification and collecting experience in the rainforests of Mexico, Belize, Guyana, Honduras, Micronesia, and Hawaii.

Their academic credentials are from six U.S. and U.K. institutions, including the University of Texas (Austin), Lamar University, Texas College, Chadron State, St. Augustine's (Kent), and Walden University. In addition, Mrs. Morris is a Maya Indian medicine woman, traditionally trained in the identification and use of medicinal plants.

Most recently, their Latin American fieldwork has been in the Yucatan region of Mexico's newest state, Quintana Roo. Project funding was provided by a U.S. government Fulbright grant, a Carlos Robles grant from the government of Mexico, state government funds from Nebraska, and corporate assistance from the Polaroid Corporation.

The authors are curators of the herbarium at the American Indian Museum of Plants and Healing, located in Alliance, Nebraska, U.S.A. The Museum serves as an international center for identifying, collecting, and preserving the plants and practices of indigenous peoples of North, South and Central America.

Including Plantae, Monera, Protoctista, Fungi is designed as a tool for both professionals and students. It is the only one volume dictionary that provides a full range of plant definitions, English terms, and their Spanish equivalents, currently used academically and commercially.

Included are more than 22,000 English and Spanish plant-related terms from the fields of botany, ecology, horticulture, genetics, taxonomy, oceanology, microbiology, physiology, morphology, cytology, marine biology, forestry, silviculture, anatomy, organology, phytopathology, agriculture, biochemistry, paleobotany, phenology, photobotany, phycology, phytogeography, phytosociology, and ethnobotany.

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