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Ranging from huge cacti and broadleaf trees to tiny arctic flowers, flowering plants are the most vital component of global biodiversity. They provide the crops that feed us, medicines, oils, fibres, herbs, spices, dyes, beverages, timber and habitats for countless animals. This updated and revised successor to a classic book, Flowering Plants of the World is an authoritative, fascinating introduction to the Earth's most colourful flora comprising comprehensive accounts of more than 500 flowering plant families. Each entry describes distribution, diagnostic features, classification, structures, uses and ecology of flowering plants. Over 1,000 visually stunning and precisely scaled illustrations display the major characteristics of key plants and detailed maps show worldwide distribution. Written by a team of acknowledged experts, this is the definitive survey of flowering plants worldwide and brings to the forefront the latest views on their classification. An extensive and meticulously illustrated glossary describes the specialist terms used in the text, and a comprehensive index includes plant names in both Latin and English. Both as a book of breathtaking beauty and a discourse on the science of flowering plants, this essential reference is sure to become a horticultural and botanical classic and part of every gardening enthusiast's and plant scientist's library.

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"Heywood's original book of the same name has been a standard reference work on the botanist's shelf since its publication in 1979 -and this is far more than just a new edition". Christopher Whitehouse, 'The Garden', August 2007."This informative, beautifully illustrated book is a pleasure to read and also acts as a timely reminder that plants not only enhance or environment but are the basis of our future and the survival of humankind". Matthew Biggs, Gardens Illustrated, June 2007.
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Vernon H. Heywood, Ph.D., D.Sc., Hon.F.L.S., is Emeritus Professor of Botany at the University of Reading, UK, and previously Professor of Botany, University of Liverpool, UK. He was also Chief Scientist, Plant Conservation, of IUCN (The World Conservation Union) and Director of Botanic Gardens Conservation International. He holds Honorary Professorships at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, and at the Universidad "Juan Agustin Maza," Mendoza, Argentina, and has been the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions. He is a world authority on biodiversity and plant systematics, and his publications include more than 60 books and 500 papers on plant taxonomy and systematics, medicinal plants, scanning electron microscopy, ecology, conservation, botanic gardens and plant genetic resources.R. K. Brummitt, Ph.D., is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, where he was employed in the Herbarium from 1963 to 1999. He has worked on several African and north temperate Flora projects and has collected plants on every continent. Since 1975 he has been secretary of the Committee for the Nomenclature of Vascular Plants, and he is also secretary of a global floristic project, the Species Plantarum Programme. He has published the reference works Vascular Plant Families and Genera and (with C. E. Powell) Authors of Plant Names.Alastair Culham, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Plant Taxonomy at the University of Reading, UK. He is a specialist in the systematics of the Droseraceae and his research now encompasses many aspects of plant phylogeny, especially the use of DNA sequence data in systematics and the integration of morphology, distribution, and climate data into phylogenetic studies. He teaches plant taxonomy, including nomenclature, morphology and phylogenetics to both undergraduate and postgraduate students and has published more than 60 papers on systematics, conservation biology and horticultural taxonomy.Ole Seberg, Ph.D., Dr. Sc., is Professor of Molecular Systematics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark (University of Copenhagen). He has a classical taxonomic education coupled with a profound interest in historical biogeography. He is an authority on the systematics of the monocotyledons and has done fieldwork in many parts of the globe. He has published taxonomic revisions, theoretical papers and papers on biogeography, molecular systematics and evolution, floras and floristics.

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  • PublisherKew Publishing
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 1842461656
  • ISBN 13 9781842461655
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages424
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