Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae FZ

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Life Sciences : Plant Sciences Springer Hartmann, Heidrun E.K. (Ed.) Softcover reprint of the 1st original 1st ed. 2002, XVI, edition 422 p. 132 illus., 48 illus. in Illustrated Handbook of color.

Printed book Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae Softcover Printed book F-Z Softcover ISBN 978-3-642-62595-4 An up-to-date comprehensive survey of the taxonomy of the iceplant $ 219,99 succulent family Aizoaceae, inlcuding the much cultivated middayflowers, Available comprising also the living stones Discount group Each genus, subgenus, species and subspecies is described with its Professional Books (2) synonyms, also the invalid or illegitimate ones Product category Over 800 color photographs of Aizoaceae species and distribution maps for Handbook each of the 134 accepted genera Series Members of the iceplant family, Aizoaceae, are appreciated by many people and disliked by Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants some. Farmers value the plants for their browsing stock, hobbyists like to grow and flower mainly the "stone plants" of the family, and tourists enjoy the mass flowering of millions of Other renditions annuals after good rains in the south western part of South Africa. Only taxonomists show Softcover some reservation against members of the Aizoaceae because of the size of the family and the ISBN 978-3-642-56266-2 confused and entangled systematics of many groups. For all groups of users, this book will offer some improvements. A worldwide web has been knitted among hundreds of interested people resulting in the pro• duction of this lexicon. As a consequence of the expanded collaboration over five continents, innumerable new results can be presented here, including many new delimitations of genera as well as new combinations and names of species. All conclusions are based on thousands of days spent on field work, thousands of original literature references inspected, thousands of herbarium sheets studied, thousands of scanning electron microscopic pictures compared, thousands of photographs taken, and thousands of taxonomic decisions made. As a result of all united efforts, an up-to-date survey of the state of the art can be presented, forming the basis for further research in the family and providing a challenge to every reader to add his special knowledge towards an improved second edition.

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