The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook PDF Author: Timothy M. A. Utteridge
Publisher: La Mona Bismarck Foundation
ISBN: 9781842466025
Category : Tropical plants
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The tropics with their lush rainforests are extremely rich in plant life but are still comparatively unknown. Botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have a long tradition of exploring and plant collecting in the tropics, accumulating an unsurpassed practical knowledge of the tropical plants they encounter.This second edition of The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook brings together this knowledge in a guide to the commonly encountered and ecologically important plants of the tropics. Written by Kew's experts, this handbook is based on Kew's Tropical Plant Identification course, which uses classical morphology, as well as more simple 'spot' characters, to teach plant identification.

The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook PDF Author: Timothy M. A. Utteridge
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
ISBN: 9781842463819
Category : Tropical plants
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A guide to the commonly encountered and ecologically important plant families of the tropics, written by Kew's experts who teach the Kew Tropical Plant Identification course.

The Kew Plant Glossary

The Kew Plant Glossary PDF Author: Henk Beentje
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
ISBN: 9781842466049
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This plant glossary includes all descriptive terms used in floras, plant field guides and monographs. This is an essential companion for anyone working with plant descriptions, plant identification keys, floras, monographs and field guides. In this second edition 4,500 botanical terms are described with accompanying illustrations, including a new section on vegetation terms and an updated colour section.'Catnip for the garden geek...this fascinating, authoritative volume may seduce even the most casual browser.'The New York Times, 27 May 2010

Tropical Flowering Plants

Tropical Flowering Plants PDF Author: Kirsten Albrecht Llamas
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN: 9781604694710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book bridges a long-standing gap between obscure references in tropical botany and the gardener's need for an accurate, practical guide. Incorporating the latest advances in plant taxonomy, the book is a rare work of scrupulous research -- and magnificent photography -- that will be as useful to the gardener as it is to the botanist.

Practical Plant Identification

Practical Plant Identification PDF Author: James Cullen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139458752
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Practical Plant Identification is an essential guide to identifying flowering plant families (wild or cultivated) in the northern hemisphere. Details of plant structure and terminology accompany practical keys to identify 318 families into which flowering plants are divided. Specifically designed for practical use, the keys can easily be worked backwards for checking identifications. Containing descriptions of families and listings of the genera within, it also includes a section on further identification to generic and specific levels. A successor to the author's bestselling The Identification of Flowering Plant Families, this guide is updated, and retains the same concise user-friendly approach. Cullen skillfully leads the reader from restrictive disciplines of older taxonomy, into an era of increasing numbers of plant families defined by DNA analysis. Aimed primarily at students of botany and horticulture, this is a perfect introduction to plant identification for anyone interested in plant taxonomy.

The Herbarium Handbook

The Herbarium Handbook PDF Author: Diane M. Bridson
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
"Contains chapters on the conservation of herbarium sheets and on the collection and curation of the larger algae. The chapter on computers has been completely rewritten and much enlarged, as have those on pests and treatments, larger fungi and economic botany. The sections on liquid preservatives and on pesticides have been revised to take into account new health and safety regulations. An essential reference work for herbarium managers and technicians and for all those who are involved with the making and maintenance of herbarium collections." --NHBS Environment Bookstore.

Trees of New Guinea

Trees of New Guinea PDF Author: Timothy M. A. Utteridge
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
ISBN: 9781842467503
Category : Arbres
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The island of New Guinea is the most floristically diverse island in the world with an extremely rich tree flora of up to 5,000 species. Trees of New Guinea details each of the 693 plant genera with arborescent members found in New Guinea. The entire New Guinea region is covered, including the West Papua and Papua Provinces of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the surrounding islands such as New Britain, New Ireland and Bougainville. The book follows contemporary classifications and is richly illustrated with line drawings and photographs throughout. Each group has a family description and key to the New Guinea tree genera, followed by a description of each genus, with notes on taxonomy, distribution, ecology and diagnostic characters.Trees of New Guinea is the essential companion to anyone studying or working in the region, including botanists, conservation workers, ecologists and zoologists.

Tropical Plant Collecting

Tropical Plant Collecting PDF Author: Scott A. Mori
Publisher: Tecc Editora
ISBN: 9788565005005
Category : BOTANICA.
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Tropical Plant Collecting provides field biologists with information about carrying out fieldwork in tropical America, gathering botanical collections, managing specimens in herbaria, making information about plants available on the Internet, and raising money to fund both expeditions and the preparation of floras and monographs. The book is based on over 40 years of tropical plant collecting in Central and South America by the senior editor and his colleagues. Although traditional field and herbarium techniques are discussed, the book emphasizes how new techniques provided by digital photography, databases, and the Internet have revolutionized plant collecting and data presentation in systematic botany. The audience for this book is tropical biologists and students who, as part of their research, need to gather botanical specimens to document their scientific studies.

A Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru), with Supplementary Notes on Herbaceous Taxa

A Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru), with Supplementary Notes on Herbaceous Taxa PDF Author: Alwyn H. Gentry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226289434
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 895

Book Description
To understand almost any part of the tropical rain forest's fabulously complex web of life, one must first learn to identify a bewildering array of plants. Alwyn Gentry's landmark book, completed just before his tragic death in 1993, is the only field guide to the nearly 250 families of woody plants in the most species-rich region of South America. As a consummate field researcher, Gentry designed this guide to be not just comprehensive, but also easy to use in rigorous field conditions. Unlike many field guides, which rely for their identifications on flowers and fruits that are only present during certain seasons, Gentry's book focuses on characters such as bark, leaves, and odor that are present year-round. His guide is filled with clear illustrations, step-by-step keys to identification, and a wealth of previously unpublished data. All biologists, wildlife managers, conservationists, and government officials concerned with the tropical rain forests will need and use this field guide. Alwyn Gentry was one of the world's foremost experts on the biology of tropical plants. He was senior curator at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and was a member of Conservation International's interdisciplinary Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) team, which inventories the biodiversity of the most threatened tropical areas. From 1967 to 1993 he collected more than 80,000 plant specimens, many of them new to science.

Plants of the World

Plants of the World PDF Author: Maarten J. M. Christenhusz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022652292X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 801

Book Description
Evolution of land plant -- Plants and human culture -- Naming plants -- Classification and the angiosperm phylogeny group
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