Plant Collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands

Plant Collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands
Author: Laurence J. Dorr
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1997
Genre: Nature
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Madagascar and the Comoro Islands have an unusual, highly endemic and rich flora. This single volume is a guide to the collections and literature relating to these islands' unique and vanishing plant life. It provides biographical and bibliographical information on over 1,000 individuals who have collected herbarium specimens in these islands. Entries contain references to portraits, itineraries, collecting companions and examples of handwriting, as well as information on the location of exsiccatae, herbarium specimens and manuscript materials.

Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield

Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2007
Genre: Botany
ISBN:
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" . . . includes the countries of Guyana and Surinam, French Guiana (a part of France) and the Venezuelan states of Amazonas, Bolivar, and Delta Amacuro. The checklist contains 257 vascular plant families with 13,367 species." -- from abstract p. [2].

Flora of the Guianas 31 . Cactaceae. Series A: Phanerogams Fasicle 18

Flora of the Guianas 31 . Cactaceae. Series A: Phanerogams Fasicle 18
Author: A. R. A. Görts-van Rijn
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Total Pages: 74
Release: 1997
Genre: Gardening
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A critical, illustrated Flora of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, designed to treat phanerogams as well as cryptogams of the area. Publication takes place in fascicles, each treating a family or group of related families. Treatments provide fundamental and applied information, covering, when possible, wood anatomy, chemical analysis, economic uses, vernacular names and data on endangered species. Cactaceae.