
Mabberley's Plant-book
A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Uses
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- Available on iOS & Android
Mabberley's Plant-book
A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Uses
About this book
Mabberley's Plant-Book is internationally accepted as an essential reference text for anyone studying, growing or writing about plants. In over 20, 000 entries this comprehensive dictionary provides information on every family and genus of seed-bearing plant (including gymnosperms) plus ferns and clubmosses, combining taxonomic details and uses with English and other vernacular names. In this new edition each entry has been updated to take into consideration the most recent literature, notably the great advances from molecular analyses, and over 1650 additional new entries (including ecologically and economically important genera of mosses) have been added, ensuring that Mabberley's Plant-Book continues to rank among the most practical and authoritative botanical texts available.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- How to use this book
- The dictionary
- Appendix: system for arrangement of extant vascular plants
- Acknowledgement of sources
- Abbreviations and symbols (used in this book)
- New names used in this book