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World checklist of dioscoreales : yams and their allies / Rafael Govaerts [and seven others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Govaerts, Rafaël, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botany.
- Dioscoreaceae.
- Dioscoreaceae--Nomenclature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (84 pages) : illustrations, tables
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Surrey, [England] : Kew Publishing, 2007.
- Summary:
- Dioscoreales are a small but systematically and economically significant order of monocotyledons.The most diverse and important member is the yam genus, Dioscorea L., a source of dietary starch at macroeconomic to rural community levels.Other species of Dioscorea provided the chemical basis of corticosteroid drugs and oral contraceptives.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- How to use the Checklist
- Abbreviations
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Burmanniaceae
- Dioscoreaceae
- Nartheciaceae.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 6, 2016).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-84246-545-7
- OCLC:
- 957437259
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