The Identification of Flowering Plant Families: Including a Key to Those Cultivated in North Temperate Regions - Softcover

Davis, P. H.; Cullen, J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521377072 ISBN 13: 9780521377072

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Changes that have occurred over the past decade in taxonomic thinking and public attitude toward plants and wildlife in general are reflected in this completely revised and updated third edition. This informational guide is intended for anyone with a practical interest in plant identification and the desire to understand the scientific basis of the identification procedure. It enables the reader to identify all flowering plant families normally found in the wild or in cultivation (outside or under glass) in northern temperate regions. The text is self-contained, with illustrated discussions of floral structure and terminology. There are full bracketed keys (to the 272 families included) with a comprehensive section explaining their use. The Engler and Pranti system has been adopted as the basis for the recognition of families and their taxonomic sequence. Also included are a glossary and a chapter of further advice on identification.

About this title

Book Description

This easy-to-use guide provides all the information necessary to identify the flowering plant families found in the wild or cultivated in northern temperate regions. Keys and descriptions for 286 families are accompanied by a fully illustrated discussion of floral structure and terminology. In this new expanded edition the information on morphology and terminology has been restructured, the keys have been revised and improved, and the descriptions re-written so that they are more accessible and informative.

Review

"From time to time taxonomists are asked to recommend a key to families of flowering plants, or a work describing plant families, which must be at once comprehensive, accurate, easy to use, in English, and of a size that is at all times manageable. This book meets all the scholarly criteria and, in addition, accommodates itself easily to either purse or pocket." Baileya ."..guides the student firmly but gently through terminology and observations necessary to identify a plant down to family and then provide a relatively simple set of keys for its closer identification." The Quarterly Review of Biology

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521377072
• ISBN 13: 9780521377072
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 144