100 Families of Flowering Plants

Klappentext This book is designed to enable students of botany to gain some knowledge of the relationships between families of plants. Zusammenfassung This book is designed to enable students of botany to gain some knowledge of the relationships between families of plants. The text of each of the 100 plant families described is in two parts. In this new edition there is a larger page-size! and also a different layout of the text. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword to the second edition S. M. Walters; Preface; Note to the second edition; Acknowledgements; Signs and abbreviations; Systematic grouping of plants; Authorities; Introduction; Part 1. Families in Systematic Order: 1. Dicotyledons; 2. Monocotyledons; Comparative Tables; Table of family characters; Less common family characters; Approximate flowering times; Glossary; Leaf shapes (simple leaves); Leaf shapes (compound leaves); Petioles and points of attachment; Leaf margins; Cymose inflorescences; Racemose inflorescences; References; Index to families and genera.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Hickey, Michael King Hickey, Clive King
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.06.1988
• EAN: 9780521337007
• ISBN: 978-0-521-33700-7
• No. of pages: 636
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works