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International code of botanical nomenclature (Tokyo code) adopted by the Fifteenth International Botanical Congress, Yokohama, August-September 1993
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ISBN: 387429367X 1878762664 8090169910 3874292770 1878762656 9783874293679 Year: 1994 Volume: 131 Publisher: Königstein : Koeltz scientific books,


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Mabberley's plant-book : A portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses
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ISBN: 9781107115026 9781316335581 1107115027 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Mabberley's Plant-book is internationally accepted as an essential reference text for anyone studying, growing or writing about plants. With some 26,000 entries, this comprehensive dictionary provides information on every family and genus of seed-bearing plant (including conifers), plus ferns and clubmosses, besides economically important mosses and algae. The book combines taxonomic details and uses with English and other vernacular names found in commerce. The third edition was recognised in the American Botanical Council's annual James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award for 2008 and the International Association for Plant Taxonomy's Engler Medal in Silver for 2009. In this new edition, each entry has been updated to take into consideration the most recent literature, notably the greater understanding resulting from molecular analyses; over 1400 additional entries (including ecologically and economically important genera of seaweeds) have been included, ensuring that Mabberley's Plant-book continues to rank among the most practical and authoritative botanical texts available.


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Family names in current use for vascular plants, bryophytes, and fungi.
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ISBN: 3874293467 1878762427 Year: 1993 Volume: vol 126 Publisher: Königstein Koeltz Scientific Books


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Libellus de re herbaria novus 1538
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ISBN: 9163086204 Year: 1999 Publisher: Uppsala : Swedish science press,


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Gods and goddesses in the garden
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ISBN: 1282272756 9786613815156 0813544726 9780813544724 9781282272750 6613815152 9780813542669 0813542669 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press

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Zeus, Medusa, Hercules, Aphrodite. Did you know that these and other dynamic deities, heroes, and monsters of Greek and Roman mythology live on in the names of trees and flowers? Some grow in your local woodlands or right in your own backyard garden. In this delightful book, botanist Peter Bernhardt reveals the rich history and mythology that underlie the origins of many scientific plant names. Unlike other books about botanical taxonomy that take the form of heavy and intimidating lexicons, Bernhardt's account comes together in a series of interlocking stories. Each chapter opens with a short version of a classical myth, then links the tale to plant names, showing how each plant "resembles" its mythological counterpart with regard to its history, anatomy, life cycle, and conservation. You will learn, for example, that as our garden acanthus wears nasty spines along its leaf margins, it is named for the nymph who scratched the face of Apollo. The shape-shifting god, Proteus, gives his name to a whole family of shrubs and trees that produce colorful flowering branches in an astonishing number of sizes and shapes. Amateur and professional gardeners, high school teachers and professors of biology, botanists and conservationists alike will appreciate this book's entertaining and informative entry to the otherwise daunting field of botanical names. Engaging, witty, and memorable, Gods and Goddesses in the Garden transcends the genre of natural history and makes taxonomy a topic equally at home in the classroom and at cocktail parties.

Mabberley's plant-book : a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses : utilizing Kubitzki's "The families and genera of vascular plants" (1990- ) and current botanical litterature : arranged according to the principles of molecular systematics
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ISBN: 9780521820714 0521820715 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,


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Phytonymic derivational systems in the romance languages : studies in their origin and development.
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ISBN: 0807891878 Year: 1978 Publisher: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina press


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