Kew Plant Glossary, The: Second Edition

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

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This plant glossary includes all descriptive terms used in floras, plant field guides and monographs. This is an essential companion for anyone working with plant descriptions, plant identification keys, floras, monographs and field guides. With the addition of over 400 new terms including a vegetation type section, this fully updated second edition now boasts 4,905 botanical terms and over 700 illustrations.

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"Have you ever wondered what the term pyriform means Or have you considered the function of an elaiosome How about describing a seed as exalbuminous If so, then this is the book for you! The Kew Plant Glossary is a fantastic little book for the botanist."-- "School Science Review"

Author Bio

Henk Beentje is a botanist with considerable field experience in Africa and Madagascar. He has published titles on Kenyan trees, Zanzibari forests and Madagascar palms, as well as on African vegetation in general and plant glossaries. His main interests are in regional Floras, field guide production and conservation, and he was editor of the Flora of Tropical East Africa at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which completed in 2012.