The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

Timothy Utteridge

ISBN 10: 184246602X / ISBN 13: 9781842466025

Verlag: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2016

New copy - Usually dispatched within 3 working days. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers B9781842466025

Inhaltsangabe:

• A guide to the commonly encountered tropical plant families in a portable, easy-to-use handbook• Richly illustrated with each family represented by a full page of photographs (many unpublished), line drawings, herbarium specimens and a distribution map• Written by Kew experts, all of whom regularly work in the tropics and teach on the Kew Tropical Plant Identification course• Follows the new classification system, APG 3, and is arranged according to APG 3• Second edition includes 17 new families described, bringing the total number of families included up to 104

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Gemma Bramley is a botanist at the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Her research interests are focussed on the Lamiaceae and Gesneriaceae families, especially from South-East Asia, and she has undertaken fieldwork throughout the Old and New World tropics.

Timothy Utteridge works in the South East Asia team at the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Tim co-organises Kew’s annual Tropical Plant Identification course with Gemma Bramley. Co-author of Field Guide to the Plants of East Sabah (Kew Publishing, 2010) and co-editor of A Guide to the Alpine and Sub-Alpine Flora of Mount Jaya (Kew Publishing, 2006).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Kew Tropical Plant Families ...
Verlag: Royal Botanic Gardens
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: Hardback
Zustand: New
Auflage: 2. Auflage