The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook
The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

Author: Timothy M. A. Utteridge

Publisher: La Mona Bismarck Foundation

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781842466025

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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

Author: Timothy M. A. Utteridge

Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781842463819

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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

Author: Henk Beentje

Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781842466049

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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

Author: Kirsten Albrecht Llamas

Publisher: Timber Press (OR)

Published: 2003-09-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781604694710

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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.

The Herbarium Handbook
The Herbarium Handbook

Author: Diane M. Bridson

Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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"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.

Practical Plant Identification
Practical Plant Identification

Author: James Cullen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-09-14

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1139458752

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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.

Trees of New Guinea
Trees of New Guinea

Author: Timothy M. A. Utteridge

Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Published: 2022-04-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781842467503

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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

Author: Scott A. Mori

Publisher: Tecc Editora

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788565005005

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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.

The Tropical Hothouse (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew)
The Tropical Hothouse (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew)

Author: Chris Thorogood

Publisher: Paperscapes

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780233006017

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The Tropical Hothouse features press-out shapes, enabling you to transform the book into a work of art, creating a landscape of over 50 rare and exotic hothouse plants.

Plants of the World
Plants of the World

Author: Maarten J. M. Christenhusz

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2017-11-13

Total Pages: 801

ISBN-13: 022652292X

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