The Genus Lachenalia - a Botanical Magazine Monograph
by DUNCAN, Graham
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 1842463829
- ISBN 13
- 9781842463826
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About This Item
Kew Publishing, 2012. Illustrated with 39 fine botanical watercolours, over 280 colour photographs, large thick 8vo pp xvi, 479, a very good copy in dustwrapper. Only one thousand copies have been produced. [This is the first complete and illustrated monograph of the genus Lachenalia, a horticulturally important and botanically diverse plant group. Lachenalia ranks with Gladiolus as one of the two most popular genera of South African bulbous plants worldwide, and next to Ornithogalum is the second-largest member of the family Hyacinthaceae in southern Africa. All species are described, classified and illustrated, with detailed text on history, morphology, phylogeny, phytogeography, pollination biology, cultivation and propagation. This book includes many highly attractive species which have never been illustrated in colour before, with 11 new taxa, ten of which are new species.] N.B. Weighs 2 kilos when wrapped - extra shipping will be required.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007624
- Title
- The Genus Lachenalia - a Botanical Magazine Monograph
- Author
- DUNCAN, Graham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1842463829
- ISBN 13
- 9781842463826
- Publisher
- Kew Publishing
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- BULBS.BULBOUS.PLANTS.SOUTH.AFRICA.AFRICAN.BOTANICAL/HORTICULTURAL MONOGRAPHS. BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Botanical/horticultural Monographs; Botanical Illustration;
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