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Author: H. M. Burkill
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 996
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA six-volume revision of J.M. Dalziel's 1937 encyclopaedic work, to supplement the 2nd edition of the Flora of West Tropical Africa. In volumes one to five 5260 plants are described, each with its geographical range, habitat and economic attributes. Volume 6 is an aggregation of all the indices in the previous five volumes.
Author: Diana Polhill
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781842463710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a record of some 2,700 people who have collected herbarium specimens in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, designed as a supplement to the now complete Flora of Tropical East Africa.
Author: Estrela Figueiredo
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2024-06-06
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0226832074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative treatise on the history of botanical studies and exploration in Angola. For any region, cataloging, interpreting, and understanding the history of botanical exploration and plant collecting, and the preserved specimens that were amassed as a result, are critically important for research and conservation. In this book, published in cooperation with the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, Estrela Figueiredo and Gideon F. Smith, both botanists with expertise in the taxonomy of African plants, provide the first comprehensive, contextualized account of plant collecting in Angola, a large country in south-tropical Africa. An essential book for anyone concerned with the biodiversity and history of Africa, this authoritative work offers insights into the lives, times, and endeavors of 358 collectors. In addition, the authors present analyses of the records that accompanied the collectors’ preserved specimens. Illustrated in color throughout, the book fills a large gap in the current knowledge of the botanical and exploration history of Africa.
Author: William Hawthorne
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 1046
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide to the identification of all the woody plants (c. 2,250 species in 740 genera) of the forest region of West Africa called 'Upper Guinea', between Togo and Senegal. Upper Guinea is one of the world's most important centres of biodiversity, from the mountain forests of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, to the lowland evergreen, and semideciduous forests widespread also in Ghana and Ivory Coast. This comprehensively illustrated guide will play a vital supportive role in the challenge of sustainable development within the forest region of West Africa, helping to promote best practice in the management of its plants and forests.
Author: Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2023-02-03
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 1000897737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from M to Q.
Author: Michel Arbonnier
Publisher: Editions Quae
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9782876145795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 1999-11-23
Total Pages: 874
ISBN-13: 9780849326769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from D to L.
Author: South African Museum
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 678
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2016-04-19
Total Pages: 4038
ISBN-13: 1482250640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten as a reference to be used within University, Departmental, Public, Institutional, Herbaria, and Arboreta libraries, this book provides the first starting point for better access to data on medicinal and poisonous plants. Following on the success of the author's CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names and the CRC World Dictionary of Grasses, the author provides the names of thousands of genera and species of economically important plants. It serves as an indispensable time-saving guide for all those involved with plants in medicine, food, and cultural practices as it draws on a tremendous range of primary and secondary sources. This authoritative lexicon is much more than a dictionary. It includes historical and linguistic information on botany and medicine throughout each volume.
Author: Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2017-08-03
Total Pages: 3591
ISBN-13: 1351651498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Foreword Umberto Quattrocchi has brought us some amazing and useful works through the various dictionaries that he has compiled. This time it is for two very important plant families the palms and the cycads that are synthesized here in these two volumes. Each entry is fascinating not just for the botany and full nomenclature of the plant species but for all the associated uses, folklore and interactions with other organisms. ...These entries are fascinating glimpses of natural history. ... Botanists, conservationists, ethnobotanists, anthropologists, geographers, bird watchers, naturalists, historians and those of many other disciplines will find these volumes a most valuable and useful resource. It is the sort of book that will be in frequent use in my library. ----- Professor Sir Ghillean Prance FRS, VMH, Former Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Following the same format as Umberto Quattrocchi’s highly praised and well-used previous works, The CRC World Dictionary of Palms: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology brings together the vast and scattered literature on palms and cycads to provide better access to information on these economically important plants. Each genus and species has a detailed morphological description and includes a list of synonyms and vernacular names in many languages. Bibliographies accompany each entry which are comprehensive, up-to-date and multi-lingual. The detailed information for every entry on habitats, economic uses, historical and biographical data, botanical exploration, and linguistics will be useful for any library involved with botany, herbal medicine, pharmacognosy, medicinal and natural product chemistry, ecology, ethnobotany, systematics, general plant science, agriculture or horticulture. Umberto Quattrocchi is the author of the bestselling CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, winner of the prestigious Hanbury Botanical Garden Award. His most recent multi-volume work, CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants, received strong praise as being "... an unparalleled starting place—a tool of first resort for any thoughtful researcher. Quattrocchi and CRC have delivered a dictionary like no other, a learned finger pointing in the right direction." —John de la Parra, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from Economic Botany, Vol. 68, 2014
