Flora Australiensis
Flora Australiensis
Ferdinand von Mueller
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USDGeorge Bentham (1800–84) was one of Britain's most influential botanists, whose own collection of plant specimens numbered more than 100,000. Although he donated his herbarium to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1854, he continued to make significant contributions to the field, including this exhaustive, seven-volume work detailing the plant life of Australia, which was published from 1863 to 1878. It was part of a series of works commissioned by the British government to document the flora in its colonies. Using the extensive numbers of specimens at Kew - and with the help of Ferdinand Mueller (1825–96), a German botanist in Australia - Bentham was able to compile descriptions of more than 8,000 species of Australian plants, making these volumes the first completed compendium of the flora of any large continental area. Volume 6, published in 1873, describes 20 orders of flora in the classes dicotyledon and monocotyledon.
Product details
December 2011Paperback
9781108037433
488 pages
216 × 140 × 28 mm
0.62kg
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Table of Contents
- Conspectus of the orders. Order CV. Thymeleae
- Order CVI. Elaeagnaceae
- Order CVII. Nepenthaceae
- Order CVIII. Euphorbiaceae
- Order CIX. Urticeae
- Order CX. Casuarineae
- Order CXI. Piperaceae
- Order CXII. Aristolochiaceae
- Order CXIII. Cupuliferae
- Order CXIV. Santalaceae
- Order CXV. Balanophoreae
- Order CXVI. Coniferae
- Order CXVII. Cycadeae
- Monocotyledons. Order CXVIII. Hydrocharideae
- Order CXIX. Scitamineae
- Order CXX. Orchideae
- Order CXXI. Burmanniaceae
- Order CXXII. Irideae
- Order CXXIII. Amaryllideae
- Order CXXIV. Taccaceae
- Order CXXV. Dioscorideae
- Index.
