Name that Flower: The Identification of Flowering Plants: 3rd Edition
- Botany & plant sciences
- Categories:Agricultural Sciences Biological Sciences
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:November,2019
- Pages:418
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- Size:148mm×208mm
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Feature
★Written by Australian botanist Ian Clark and Helen Lee, recommended by Natural History Australia and the Kew Bulletin!
★With massive anatomical drawings and color photos of flowers and plants, the book clearly introduces the floral arrangement, propagation, plant structure and function of flowering plants worldwide, as well as the grouping and naming of species!
★The book is used extensively as a teaching text in numerous courses concerned with the natural world, such as agriculture, horticulture, botany, environmental management and landscape design, as well as botanical art.
Description
This edition is updated to align with current systems of plant classification that incorporate advances in molecular DNA analysis. It includes more than 130 detailed line drawings, 64 colour pages and information on 46 plant families. The illustrations depict a selection of widely distributed gardens plants and weeds, and species native in eastern and southeastern Australia. Easily navigated, the book facilitates the successful use of standard identification manuals and online resources available in most parts of the world and introduces the reader to the arrangement of flowers on plants, reproduction, plant structure and function, and the way species are grouped and named. Methods for dissecting flowers and observing their structure for identification purposes are clearly described.
Author
Helen Lee, Honorary Research Fellow in the Botany Department, La Trobe University, has lectured in botany for many years both in Australia and overseas. She is a member of the Royal Society of Victoria and the Australian Systematic Botany Society.
Ian Clarke
Ian Clarke is currently in charge of the plant identification service of the National Herbarium of Victoria. Between 1975 and 1990 he was associated with the Council of Adult Education in Melbourne as a tutor in flowering plant identification.