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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.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Frodin, D. G.
Contributor:
Rosengarten Family Fund.
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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