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Mountain Flowers and Trees of Caucasia (Paperback)
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Mountain Flowers and Trees of Caucasia (Paperback)
Series: Pelagic Identification Guides
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The mountains of Caucasia lie between the Black and Caspian Seas
and on the boundary between Europe and Asia. They include the
highest, most dramatic, least spoiled and least known mountain
ranges of the northern hemisphere after the Himalayas and Rockies.
The area supports about 6,400 species of vascular plant of which a
quarter occur nowhere else (i.e. they are endemic to the region),
and about 850 species of vertebrate animal of which some 120 are
endemic. This is the highest percentage of endemism in the
temperate world, and makes Caucasia one of the most important
hotspots of biodiversity on Earth. Mountain Flowers & Trees of
Caucasia describes and illustrates in full colour nearly all the
wild flowers, trees and shrubs that can be found over 1,000 metres
above sea level - 1,009 species. The authors hope that this field
guide will encourage you to visit the mountains of Caucasia to
delight in their unique and spectacular assemblage of flowering
plants, and so contribute to its conservation. The authors include
an overview of vegetation in Caucasia, along with a key to
families, and keys to genera of selected families. This second
edition has increased the number of species described to over a
thousand, and adopted the modern systematic order of Plant Families
described by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group to show evolutionary
relationships. The order of genera within each Family generally
follows that of Flora Europaea. To ease the problem of synonyms,
Mountain Flowers not only makes use of The Plant List (tPL), which
is easily accessible on line, but gives a substantial list of other
synonyms not included in tPL. Each species has a unique number
which allows its description, photograph, synonyms and index entry
to be easily linked.
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