Spot-characters for the Identification of Malesian Seed Plants: A Guide
by van Balgooy, M.M.J.; Low, Y.W.; Wong, K.M
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Natural History Publications (Borneo), 2015. 288, col photos. . PB. NEW. . Malesia is the botanical region comprising Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, and Timor Leste. The seed plants of this biologically super-rich region probably include over 41,000 species. While the technical expertise for plant taxonomy may be highly specialised, the use of spot-characters features of the plants that may be characteristic for a species, alliance or group, and which may be constant enough to rely on for identification can often help. Here the authors have compiled lists of seed plants for as many as 119 spot-characters that they have found useful in their work on identification, as an additional tool in our arsenal for tracking down the identities of Malesian seed plants. The characters range from growth form and vegetative characters such as stem and branch characteristics and leaf arrangement, as well as a range of features of inflorescences, flowers, fruits and seeds. This book should be useful for students, foresters, botanists and anyone who seeks to identify and know the seed plants of Malesia. It emphasises characters that are found on herbarium specimens (dried plant material routinely preserved to form the herbariums scientific archive), many of which are also easily observable in fresh material, but includes a number of commonly noted ?field characters' (found only in the living plant but which collectors commonly mention in their collecting labels) as well. Most of the characters are illustrated by photographs.. [9789838121590]
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- Title
- Spot-characters for the Identification of Malesian Seed Plants: A Guide
- Author
- van Balgooy, M.M.J.; Low, Y.W.; Wong, K.M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 9838121592
- ISBN 13
- 9789838121590
- Publisher
- Natural History Publications (Borneo)
- Place of Publication
- Kota Kinabalu
- Date Published
- 2015
- Keywords
- Identification guide; Plant Identification; Southeast Asia; Asia
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)