front cover of World Checklist and Bibliography of Campanulaceae
World Checklist and Bibliography of Campanulaceae
Thomas G Lammers
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2007
The bellflower Family Campanulaceae is found throughout the world, and includes a large number of species important in ornamental horticulture. For the past quarter century, Dr. Thomas Lammers has devoted his professional career to a better understanding of its relationships, classification, distribution, and evolution. In this volume, he provides a thorough accounting of the family, the first to be published since 1839. Eighty-four genera are recognized, encompassing 2319 species, 391 subspecies, and 27 named hybrids; another 8135 names are treated as synonyms. For each recognized species, subspecies, or hybrid, information is provided on its geographic distribution, life-form, and chromosome number. All this is fully documented by an encyclopaedic bibliography. As such, it is the ultimate resource from which to begin any inquiry into the family and its members.
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Checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota
M Legon
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2005
The first comprehensive checklist of the fungi of Great Britain and Ireland, providing publication references and brief habitat, frequency and distribution details for all 3,760 species of mushroom, toadstool, bracket fungus, puffball, earthstar, stinkhorn, club and coral, tooth and jelly, fungus as well as the rusts and smuts, recorded in the British Isles. References are also given for a further 12,500 synonyms and excluded taxa (many being old or doubtful names), with notes on the reasons for their exclusion from the current listing.
An essential companion for amateur and professional mycologists, and a valuable reference tool for all wildlife recorders, ecologists and conservationists.
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Chinese Medicinal Plants, Herbal Drugs and Substitutes
An Identification Guide
Christine Leon
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2017
The product of fifteen years of collecting activity throughout China, this book offers the first comprehensive, botanically authoritative, and practical illustrated identification guide to Chinese medicinal plants and drugs and their substitutes. The herbal drugs included in the book are officially recognized in the Chinese pharmacopoeia, with an eye toward drugs that are common in international trade, as well as those recognized by Western medical associations. The book is laid out to allow quick and easy cross-referencing of official and substitute species and will be ideal for those without botanical information training. A joint project of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Institute of Medicinal Plant Development at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, it will be indispensable for anyone working with traditional or herbal remedies.
 
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front cover of Legumes of Africa
Legumes of Africa
a checklist
J M Lock
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2000
Comprehensive checklist, with code abbreviations for characteristics, habitat and distribution. Notes of economic use are included where applicable.
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Legumes of West Asia
a checklist
J M Lock
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2000
Systematic listing by family, genus and species; each species with brief distribution notes and bibliographical references for detailed descriptions and illustrations.
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Flora Zambesiaca Volume 13 (3) Hyancinthaceae
Benoit Loeuille
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2023
An authoritative account of Hyancinthaceae.

The Flora Zambesiaca series provides comprehensive descriptive accounts of the flowering plants and ferns native and naturalized in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and the Caprivi Strip. Volume 14 covers the Hyancinthaceae in its entirety, including detailed plant descriptions and botanical illustrations to aid identification.
 
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