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Volume 8 contains 19 families of plants, many of which are herbaceous. The largest is the cabbage family, Brassicaceae, with 160 species, containing many familiar weeds (such as Wild Turnip, Wild Radish, etc) of cultivated and waste ground, but also many native species and genera such as Lepidium. Other large families included are Droseraceae (sundews), Cucurbitaceae (melons), Capparaceae, Frankeniaceae and Flacourtiaceae. The volume also includes the tropical Nepenthaceae (Pitcher Plants), the Violaceae, and the introduced willows (Salicaceae).
This volume covers 19 families, 106 genera and 419 species.
28 new taxa are described, including 2 new genera, Nothoalsomitra Telford (Cucurbitaceae) and Irenepharsus Hewson (Brassicaceae), as well as many new combinations and lectotypifications.
Dedication
This volume is dedicated to Sir Rutherford Robinson, A.C., C.M.G., F.A.A., F.R.S.
Inaugural Chairman of the Editorial Committee, who guided the Flora of Australia project from a proposal to a reality.
About this book
Book series
Flora of Australia
Publisher
AGPS
Year
1982
Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0 644 02017 2
ISBN-13: 978 0 644 02017 6
Softcover
ISBN-10: 0 644 02018 0
ISBN-13: 978 0 644 02018 3
Size
250 × 176 mm (B5)
Number of pages
6xii + 420 pages
supplementary glossary, index
Binding
Hardcover and Softcover
section stitched
Illustrations
17 colour plates
51 black and white plates
446 maps
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