Scott Zona

Scott Zona holds a B.S. in horticulture and an M.S. in botany from the University of Florida. His Ph.D. in botany is from Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (now the California Botanic Garden) and Claremont Graduate University, California. He has explored for plants in Florida, California, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Pacific islands, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, and Madagascar. His interests are in the diversity and natural history of tropical plants, especially palms, salvias, and bryophytes, and has published over 175 articles on these topics (and more) in various magazines, book chapters, and scholarly journals. Scott is co-editor of the International Palm Society’s quarterly journal, PALMS, and a Research Collaborator with the Herbarium of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.