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Guide to standard floras of the world : an annotated, geographically arranged systematic bibliography of the principal floras, enumerations, checklists, and chorological atlases of different areas / David G. Frodin.
LIBRA QK45.2 .F76 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frodin, D. G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botany--Bibliography.
- Botany.
- Plants--Classification.
- Phytogeography.
- Phytogeography--Bibliography.
- Plants--Classification--Bibliography.
- Plants.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 1100 pages ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambride University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- An essential botanical reference work updated to include the literature of the last two decades.
- Contents:
- I Five-grade map of the approximate state of world floristic knowledge as of 1979 (from E. Jager) 12
- II The spread of Divisions 0-9 as used in this book 17
- 1 An analytical-synthetic systematic bibliography of 'standard' floras: scope, sources and structure 3
- 2 The evolution of floras 24
- 3 Floras at the end of the twentieth century: philosophy, progress and prospects 52
- II Systematic bibliography
- Conventions and abbreviations 89
- Conspectus of divisions and superregions 92
- Division 0 World floras, isolated oceanic islands and polar regions 93
- Division 1 North America (north of Mexico) 148
- Division 2 Middle America 256
- Division 3 South America 309
- Division 4 Australasia and islands of the southwest Indian Ocean (Malagassia) 381
- Division 5 Africa 434
- Division 6 Europe 517
- Division 7 Northern, central and southwestern (extra-monsoonal) Asia 650
- Division 8 Southern, eastern and southeastern (monsoonal) Asia 719
- Division 9 Greater Malesia and Oceania 838
- Appendix A Major general bibliographies, indices and library catalogues covering world floristic literature 931
- Appendix B Abbreviations of serials cited 948.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 948-967).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0521790778
- OCLC:
- 45828728
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