Original cloth, with dust-jacket. xxiv,670 pp., with color photographs, figures, tables, and maps; 26x19 cm. Text in English. - (minor wear to dust-jacket) Very good, see picture This second edition provides an overview of Australia's flora, including essays on plant exploration history, biographies of major collectors, current plant communities, evolution, phytogeography, and human impact. It concludes with a glossary of botanical terms and a key to Australian flowering plant families. 1960g.

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Title

Flora of Australia, Volume 1: Introduction. 2nd edn.

Publisher

Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0643059652

ISBN 13

9780643059658

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

2nd Edition

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

Weight

1960 grams

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This volume provides an overview of the series and important background information on the flora of Australia. Chapters by leading scientists review the history of plant exploration in Australia and its literature, and provide concise biographies of major collectors and describers of Australia's plants, guides to the location of their collections and references to more detailed biographies. Current plant communities, the evolution and phytogeography of Australia's unique flora and the impact of human activities are all described. The volume concludes with a glossary of botanical terms, and a key to the families of Australian flowering plants.

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Australian Biological Resources Study is a Program within Parks Australia Division of the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Thirty authors, illustrators and photographers have contributed to this volume.

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