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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Muelleria
Author: Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges 2
Author: Enid MayfieldPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643098070
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This visually superb and informative field guide is the second volume of Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges, and covers more than 480 species of Daisies, Heaths, Peas, Saltbushes, Sundews, Wattles and other shrubby and herbaceous Dicotyledons. The illustrated family key is unique and covers 75 families and over 200 genera. Each species is illustrated and labels provide a clear key to identification for botanists and amateurs alike. The Otway region of Victoria, with its temperate rainforests, mountain ash forests, heathlands, plains and coastal dunes, has an extraordinarily rich and diverse flora.
Flora of the Sydney Region
Author: Belinda Jane PellowPublisher: Sydney University Press
ISBN: 1920899308
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
The fifth edition Flora of the Sydney Region is the definitive technical guide to the identification of wild plants in one of the world's botanical heartlands. The Flora covers an area of coastal New South Wales stretching from Newcastle to Nowra and west to Lithgow. This comprehensive treatment contains diagnostic keys and descriptions that make it possible for the reader to identify any of the 3,000 indigenous or naturalised plant species found in this botanically diverse region. The identification keys efficiently guide the reader through those plant characteristics necessary to arrive at the correct scientific name. The identification process is further aided by a glossary and an extensive index of scientific and common plant names. Species descriptions include habitat details and flowering times. An instructive introduction provides support for the novice botanist. When first published in 1963, Flora of the Sydney Region was the only complete regional Flora in Australia. This fully revised edition of the Flora incorporates the wealth of botanical research which has taken place since the publication of the fourth edition in 1994. As a trusty field guide and authoritative desktop reference, it will be a constant companion to environmental consultants, amateur and professional botanists, ecologists, bushwalkers, bush regenerators and teaching institutions.
Flora of New South Wales
Author: Gwen Jean HardenPublisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9780868406091
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
A comprehensive revised edition incorporating recent developments such as changes to species names, significant changes to classifications, as well as information on newly described plants.
Australian Plant Name Index
Author: Arthur D. ChapmanPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Lists all names that have been used for plants discovered in Australia (62,000+) from genus level downwards. Each entry includes bibliographic and typification information, first reference to the occurrence of the introduced plants, place where type specimens are housed, and references to relevant research. Vol. 4 includes an index to the families and their genera listed in the work.
Australian Science in the Making
Author: R. W. HomePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521396400
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
In this 1989 volume the Australian Academy of Science celebrates and assesses two centuries of Australian science.
Progress in Botany / Fortschritte der Botanik
Author: Heinz EllenbergPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364266511X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Flora of Australia
Author: Australian Biological Resources StudyPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9780643059696
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
2nd ed. of v. 1 updates the original volume and expands the range of review essays presented. It is intended to provide a primary source of information about plants in Australia from the point of view of taxonomic botany. To be used as a ready reference to the major literature on the Australian flora and includes a glossary of botanical terms and a key to families of Australian flowering plants.
Lichens of Antarctica and South Georgia
Author: D. O. ØvstedalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521662413
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Antarctica's severe climate and restricted area of ice-free habitats limit the biodiversity and biota of its terrestrial ecosystems. Throughout much of this wilderness, lichens are the predominant visible life form, yet relatively few descriptive accounts of Antarctic lichens have been published. Research on these enigmatic organisms is increasing rapidly and there is a growing need for a comprehensive guide to the identification of Antarctic lichen-forming fungi. This volume provides the first modern detailed compilation of their taxonomy, ecology, distribution and relevant published literature. As such, it represents a major contribution to global lichen taxonomy and biogeography. The systematic accounts provide sufficient descriptive information to allow specialists to identify taxa to species level, and are structured so that even non-specialists can use them to identify specimens to at least the generic level.
Systematics, Evolution, and Biogeography of Compositae
Author: Vicki Ann FunkPublisher:
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Category : Compositae
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
"This spectacular book does full justice to the Compositae (Asteraceae), the largest and most successful flowering plant family with some 1700 genera and 24,000 species. It is an indispensable reference, providing the most up-to-date hypotheses of phylogenetic relationships in the family based on molecular and morphological characters, along with the corresponding subfamilial and tribal classification. The 2009 work not only integrates the extensive molecular phylogenetic analyses conducted in the last 25 years, but also uses these to produce a metatree for about 900 taxa of Compositae. The book contains 44 chapters, contributed by 80 authors, covering the history, economic importance, character variation, and systematic and phylogenetic diversity of the family. The emphasis of this work is phylogenetic; its chapters provide a detailed, current, and thoroughly documented presentation of the major (and not so major) clades in the family, citing some 2632 references. Like the Compositae, the book is massive, diverse, and fascinating. It is beautifully illustrated, with 170 figures, and an additional 108 cladograms (all consistently color-coded, based on the geographic range of the included taxa); within these figures are displayed 443 color photographs, clearly demonstrating the amazing array of floral and vegetative form expressed by members of the clade." --NHBS Environment Bookstore.