The Flowering Plants Handbook
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| Author | : James W. Byng |
| Publisher | : Plant Gateway Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 627 |
| Release | : 2014-10-16 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0992999316 |
This plant book aims to help identify flowering plants to genus and family level anywhere in the world. In 2014 there were very few available works which were both comprehensive and up-to-date for all the flowering plants families and genera of the world. The Flowering Plants Handbook is an easy to use identification guide to the worlds flowering plants designed for both specialists and non-specialists and from beginner to expert. The book contains descriptions of all currently recognised flowering plant families, morphological notes for 6656 genera (all current genera for 398/413 families) and over 3000 images and illustrations. Flowering plants can be identified using the book to family and much of the world's generic diversity in four 'easy' steps. Some plants will be identified correctly quickly, whilst others may require some retracing of steps and take a little more time. The advantage of this book is that it helps the user learn about the classification system and plant diversity during the identification process. This work was compiled and developed using the living, library and herbarium collections at the University of Aberdeen, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
| Author | : Wendy B. Zomlefer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780807844700 |
Introduction. Choice of classification. Choice of families and family list. Family treatments. Dicotyledons and monocotyledons: an example of paraphyly. Observing, dissecting, and drawing flowering plants. Plant families.
| Author | : Anne Bebbington |
| Publisher | : Crowood |
| Total Pages | : 758 |
| Release | : 2014-06-30 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1847977596 |
To study a plant in detail is to make a fascinating journey of discovery. Even plants we think we know well will often surprise us as we look at the intricacy of their structure and how they are put together. This fascinating guide explains what flowering plants are and their relationship to other groups of plants. With drawings, paintings and photographs throughout, it advises on how to carry out a botanical study and will prove essential reading for botanical artists, photographers and all those wishing to gain a greater understanding of flowering plants. Contents include: practical advice on techniques, tools and other equipment used in botanical work; the structure and function of the main parts of the flowering plant, highlighting features that are important in illustration for botanical purposes; suggestions for projects, which can be used to assess your understanding or stimulate the start of a new project. Superbly illustrated with 366 colour images.
| Author | : Willis Linn Jepson |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 1264 |
| Release | : 1925 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Amerika, Florenwerke, Kalifornien
| Author | : Kirsten Albrecht Llamas |
| Publisher | : Timber Press (OR) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2003-09-15 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781604694710 |
This book bridges a long-standing gap between obscure references in tropical botany and the gardener's need for an accurate, practical guide. Incorporating the latest advances in plant taxonomy, the book is a rare work of scrupulous research -- and magnificent photography -- that will be as useful to the gardener as it is to the botanist.
| Author | : Adrian D. Bell |
| Publisher | : Timber Press |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2008-09-03 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 088192850X |
The ideal reference for students of botany and horticulture, gardeners, and naturalists. The diverse external shapes and structures that make up flowering plants can be bewildering and even daunting, as can the terminology used to describe them. An understanding of plant form—plant morphology—is essential to appreciating the wonders of the plant world and to the study of botany and horticulture at every level. In this ingeniously designed volume, the complex subject becomes both accessible and manageable. The first part of the book describes and clearly illustrates the major plant structures that can be seen with the naked eye or a hand lens. The second part focuses on how plants grow: bud development, the growth of reproductive organs, leaf arrangement, branching patterns, and the accumulation and loss of structures. Aimed at students of botany and horticulture, enthusiastic gardeners, and amateur naturalists, it functions as an illustrated dictionary, a basic course in plant morphology, and an intriguing and enlightening book to dip into.
| Author | : Klaus Kubitzki |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 663 |
| Release | : 2013-06-29 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3662028999 |
This volume - the first of this series dealing with angiosperms - comprises the treatments of 73 families, representing three major blocks of the dicotyledons: magnoliids, centrosperms, and hamamelids. These blocks are generally recognized as subclasses in modern textbooks and works of reference. We consider them a convenient means for structuring the hundreds of di cotyledon families, but are far from taking them at face value for biological, let alone mono phyletic entities. Angiosperm taxa above the rank of family are little consolidated, as is easily seen when comparing various modern classifications. Genera and families, in contrast, are comparatively stable units -and they are important in practical terms. The genus is the taxon most frequently recognized as a distinct entity even by the layman, and generic names provide the key to all in formation available about plants. The family is, as a rule, homogeneous enough to conve niently summarize biological information, yet comprehensive enough to avoid excessive re dundance. The emphasis in this series is, therefore, primarily on families and genera.
| Author | : Leon Gray |
| Publisher | : Chartwell Books |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2015-10-23 |
| Genre | : Gardening |
| ISBN | : 0785833064 |
Flowering Plants profiles a trove of more than 100 flowering plant families with over 700 beautiful photographs of these botanical stunners.
| Author | : Ian Clarke |
| Publisher | : Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780522850604 |
"This concise guide to identifying flowering plants covers aesthetic and botanical information about flora from around the world. Presented are illustrations and explanations of reproductive parts, variations in floral structure, and nomenclature and plant families. The dissection process for flowers, techniques of flower arranging, and methods of observing structure for identification are clearly described. Plant families common to Australia are illustrated with examples of cultivated and wild
| Author | : Armen Takhtajan |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 906 |
| Release | : 2009-07-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1402096097 |
Armen Takhtajan is among the greatest authorities in the world on the evolution of plants. This book culminates almost sixty years of the scientist's research of the origin and classification of the flowering plants. It presents a continuation of Dr. Takhtajan’s earlier publications including “Systema Magnoliophytorum” (1987), (in Russian), and “Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants” (1997), (in English). In his latest book, the author presents a concise and significantly revised system of plant classification (‘Takhtajan system’) based on the most recent studies in plant morphology, embryology, phytochemistry, cytology, molecular biology and palynology. Flowering plants are divided into two classes: class Magnoliopsida (or Dicotyledons) includes 8 subclasses, 126 orders, c. 440 families, almost 10,500 genera, and no less than 195,000 species; and class Liliopsida (or Monocotyledons) includes 4 subclasses, 31 orders, 120 families, more than 3,000 genera, and about 65,000 species.This book contains a detailed description of plant orders, and descriptive keys to plant families providing characteristic features of the families and their differences.
