Flora Capensis - Being a Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria and Port Natal, and Neighbouring Territories (Paperback)

This seminal publication began life as a collaborative effort between the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (1811-66) and his German counterpart Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812-81). Relying on many contributors of specimens and descriptions from colonial South Africa - and building on the foundations laid by Carl Peter Thunberg, whose Flora Capensis (1823) is also reissued in this series - they published the first three volumes between 1860 and 1865. These were reprinted unchanged in 1894, and from 1896 the project was supervised by William Thiselton-Dyer (1843-1928), director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. A final supplement appeared in 1933. Reissued now in ten parts, this significant reference work catalogues more than 11,500 species of plant found in South Africa. Volume 5 appeared in three parts, the second comprising sections published between 1915 and 1925, covering Thymelaeaceae to Ceratophylleae. The 1933 supplement on Gymnospermae is also incorporated in this reissue.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Flora Capensis 7 Volume Set in 10 Pieces, Volume 5
Release date:	July 2014
Editors:	William T. Thiselton Dyer • Arthur W Hill
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	672
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-06812-3
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > General Promotions
LSN:	1-108-06812-X
Barcode:	9781108068123

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