Author: Imperial Ethiopian College of Agriculture and Mechanic ArtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Families of Flowering Plants in Ethiopia
Author: Imperial Ethiopian College of Agriculture and Mechanic ArtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Families of Flowering Plants in Ethiopia
Author: William C. BurgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angiosperms
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Guide to Standard Floras of the World
Author: David G. FrodinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139428651
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
This 2001 book provides a selective annotated bibliography of the principal floras and related works of inventory for vascular plants. The second edition was completely updated and expanded to take into account the substantial literature of the late twentieth century, and features a more fully developed review of the history of floristic documentation. The works covered are principally specialist publications such as floras, checklists, distribution atlases, systematic iconographies and enumerations or catalogues, although a relatively few more popularly oriented books are also included. The Guide is organised in ten geographical divisions, with these successively divided into regions and units, each of which is prefaced with a historical review of floristic studies. In addition to the bibliography, the book includes general chapters on botanical bibliography, the history of floras, and general principles and current trends, plus an appendix on bibliographic searching, a lexicon of serial abbreviations, and author and geographical indexes.
Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons
Author: Klaus KubitzkiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662028999
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
This volume - the first of this series dealing with angiosperms - comprises the treatments of 73 families, representing three major blocks of the dicotyledons: magnoliids, centrosperms, and hamamelids. These blocks are generally recognized as subclasses in modern textbooks and works of reference. We consider them a convenient means for structuring the hundreds of di cotyledon families, but are far from taking them at face value for biological, let alone mono phyletic entities. Angiosperm taxa above the rank of family are little consolidated, as is easily seen when comparing various modern classifications. Genera and families, in contrast, are comparatively stable units -and they are important in practical terms. The genus is the taxon most frequently recognized as a distinct entity even by the layman, and generic names provide the key to all in formation available about plants. The family is, as a rule, homogeneous enough to conve niently summarize biological information, yet comprehensive enough to avoid excessive re dundance. The emphasis in this series is, therefore, primarily on families and genera.
Flowering Plants. Monocots
Author: Elizabeth A. KelloggPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319153323
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
This volume is the outcome of a modern phylogenetic analysis of the grass family based on multiple sources of data, in particular molecular systematic studies resulting from a concerted effort by researchers worldwide, including the author. In the classification given here grasses are subdivided into 12 subfamilies with 29 tribes and over 700 genera. The keys and descriptions for the taxa above the rank of genus are hierarchical, i.e. they concentrate upon characters which are deemed to be synapomorphic for the lineages and may be applicable only to their early-diverging taxa. Beyond the treatment of phylogeny and formal taxonomy, the author presents a wide range of information on topics such as the structural characters of grasses, their related functional aspects and particularly corresponding findings from the field of developmental genetics with inclusion of genes and gene products instrumental in the shaping of morphological traits (in which this volume appears unique within this book series); further topics addressed include the contentious time of origin of the family, the emigration of the originally shade-loving grasses out of the forest to form vast grasslands accompanied by the switch of many members to C4 photosynthesis, the impact of herbivores on the silica cycle housed in the grass phytoliths, the reproductive biology of grasses, the domestication of major cereal crops and the affinities of grasses within the newly circumscribed order Poales. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of existing knowledge on the Poaceae (Gramineae), with major implications in terms of key scientific challenges awaiting future research. It certainly will be of interest both for the grass specialist and also the generalist seeking state-of-the-art information on the diversity of grasses, the most ecologically and economically important of the families of flowering plants.
Flowering Plants in West Africa
Author: Margaret SteentoftPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521261929
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A study of the flowering plant flora of West Africa south of the Sahara with the emphasis upon species of ecological or economic importance.
Families of Flowering Plants of Southern Africa
Author: Herbert Parkes RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Flora of Ethiopia: pt. 1. Magnoliaceae to Flacourtiaceae
Author: Flora of Tropical East Africa
Author: Flowering Plant Families of East Africa
Author: J. O. KokwaroPublisher: East African Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Agiosperms
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description