New Flora of the British Isles - Softcover

Stace, Clive A.

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9780521427937: New Flora of the British Isles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521427932 ISBN 13: 9780521427937

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

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This text is designed as a practical database for taxonomists, plant geographers, ecologists, conservationists, and teachers, as well as for amateur botanists and plant hunters. The descriptions have been drawn up using actual plant material, as well as the existing literature.

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Review:

'... Stace's Flora is a mine of information, a model of clarity and organization, and one that no serious Irish or British botanist should be without.' The Irish Naturalist Journal

'The New Flora is a remarkable work ... I for one have nothing but admiration for the accuracy of the text.' British Wildlife

'Clive Stace's Flora is a tour de force, a mine of information and absolutely indispensable for anyone who has more than a passing interest in British plants.' Trends in Ecology and Evolution

'Among the very best of Floras.' Rudolf Schmid, University of California

'Clive Stace has become a household name amongst British field botanists since his first edition ... I would recommend this new edition to any serious botanist.' Scottish Wildlife

'... an authoritative and user-friendly Flora that will be our standard for taxonomy, nomenclature, and identification for some time to come.' Watsonia

'Stace 3 will be the flora of choice for all serious botanists in Britain and Ireland for the foreseeable future. It is THE book to use.' M. F. Fay, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

'The New Flora of the British Isles is a standard not only among British botanists but also on the shelves of other European botanists, and I can only congratulate this outstanding presentation of the British flora'. Lars Fr�berg, Systematic Biology

'This reference is essential to anyone interested in this flora; no other text is as comprehensive.' S. L. Timme, Choice Magazine

Book Description:

Established as the standard work on the identification of the wild vascular plants of the British Isles, now in its third edition, New Flora of the British Isles includes the addition of more than 160 species, rewritten distributions and degrees of rarity and a new DNA sequence system of classification.

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