Rodrigo Bernal (born 1959 in Medellín) is a Colombian botanist who specialises in the palm family. Bernal is a faculty member at the Institute of Natural Sciences, National University of Colombia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Aarhus in 1996.

Bernal has published over sixty works on palm systematics and ecology. He has described species in the genera Aiphanes, Astrocaryum, Attalea, Catoblastus, Ceroxylon, Chamaedorea , Geonoma and Socratea and coauthored a field guide to the palms of the Americas.^[1]

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• Faculty web page at the National University of Colombia.

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