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Flowering Plants A Concise Pictorial Guide

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Plants are fundamental to life on Earath - they provide the oxygen we breathe, our food and beverages, spices and herbs, fibres, medicines, fuels, dyes and buiding materials. To enable botanists to identify plants they have been classified by physical features and now by their DNA. Flowering Plants: a concise pictorial guide graphically illustrates over 100 of the most important plant families that shape our lives and environment.rnrnIntroduction to the classification of plants. Description of each family including key diagnostoc features, distribution and economic uses. Glossary of the specialist terms used in the text. Meticulous colour illustrations by botanical artists. Appendix providing latest DNA based classification, listing 413 families as recognised by the APG II system. Written by acknowledged experts including botanists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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580.3 GRA f

Publisher

London : First Floor., 2011

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288 p.: ill.; 22 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-84246-468-0

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Dictionaries and Encyclopedia of Botany/

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Published 2011

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plants
flowering plants

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