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CRC World Dictionary of Palms - Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology (2 Volume Set) (Paperback)
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CRC World Dictionary of Palms - Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology (2 Volume Set) (Paperback)
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From the Foreword Umberto Quattrocchi has brought us some amazing
and useful works through the various dictionaries that he has
compiled. This time it is for two very important plant families the
palms and the cycads that are synthesized here in these two
volumes. Each entry is fascinating not just for the botany and full
nomenclature of the plant species but for all the associated uses,
folklore and interactions with other organisms. ...These entries
are fascinating glimpses of natural history. ... Botanists,
conservationists, ethnobotanists, anthropologists, geographers,
bird watchers, naturalists, historians and those of many other
disciplines will find these volumes a most valuable and useful
resource. It is the sort of book that will be in frequent use in my
library. ----- Professor Sir Ghillean Prance FRS, VMH, Former
Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Following the same format as
Umberto Quattrocchi's highly praised and well-used previous works,
The CRC World Dictionary of Palms: Common Names, Scientific Names,
Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology brings together the vast and
scattered literature on palms and cycads to provide better access
to information on these economically important plants. Each genus
and species has a detailed morphological description and includes a
list of synonyms and vernacular names in many languages.
Bibliographies accompany each entry which are comprehensive,
up-to-date and multi-lingual. The detailed information for every
entry on habitats, economic uses, historical and biographical data,
botanical exploration, and linguistics will be useful for any
library involved with botany, herbal medicine, pharmacognosy,
medicinal and natural product chemistry, ecology, ethnobotany,
systematics, general plant science, agriculture or horticulture.
Umberto Quattrocchi is the author of the bestselling CRC World
Dictionary of Plant Names, winner of the prestigious Hanbury
Botanical Garden Award. His most recent multi-volume work, CRC
World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants, received strong
praise as being "... an unparalleled starting place-a tool of first
resort for any thoughtful researcher. Quattrocchi and CRC have
delivered a dictionary like no other, a learned finger pointing in
the right direction." -John de la Parra, Northeastern University,
Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from Economic Botany, Vol. 68, 2014
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