Authors:Peter Sell, Gina Murrell,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: butomaceae, orchidaceae, volume, ireland, britain, flora
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 1997-03-13
List price: $239.99
ISBN-10: 0521553393
ISBN-13: 9780521553391

Planned in five volumes, this new, critical Flora provides a definitive account of the native species, naturalized species, frequent garden escapes and casuals found in the British Isles. Full keys and descriptions should enable the botanist, researcher or informed amateur to name all plants occurring in the wild, plus some ornamental trees and shrubs. Detailed accounts of all the large apomictic genera are given and many infraspecific variants. Each species entry begins with the accepted Latin name, synonyms and the common English name. A detailed description follows, with separate descriptio

Author: Klaus Kubitzki
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: plants, genera, vascular, families, lilianae, monocotyledons, flowering, orchidaceae
Number of Pages: 478
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $559.00
ISBN-10: 3540640606
ISBN-13: 9783540640608

Volumes III and IV of this encyclopaedia provide a novel classification of the monocotyledons, a group encompassing plants of most diverse life-forms such as aquatics, terrestrial and epiphytic herbs, and tall trees. Of the 106 families now recognized 104 are treated in the two volumes, while the economically or horticulturally important grass and orchid families are relegated to two subsequent volumes. The classification followed here is based on recent molecular studies as well as on the vast body of information available on this plant group. The wealth and precision of information, but also