Flora Australiensis
A Description of the Plants of the Australian Territory

A seven-volume compendium, published from 1863 to 1878, of Australian flora, compiled by one of Britain's most influential botanists.

George Bentham (Author), Ferdinand von Mueller (Author)

9781108037426, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 December 2011

612 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.5 cm, 0.77 kg

George 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 5, published in 1870, gives the details of 14 orders of monopetalae and monochlamydeae dicotyledon flora.

Conspectus of the orders
Order XC. Myoporineae
Order XCI. Selagineae
Order XCII. Verbenaceae
Order XCIII. Labiatae
Order XCIV. Plantagineae
Order XCV. Phytolaccaceae
Order XCVI. Chenopodiaceae
Order XCVII. Amarantaceae
Order XCVIII. Paronychiaceae
Order XCIX. Polygonaceae
Order C. Nyctagineae
Order CI. Myristiceae
Order CII. Monimiaceae
Order CIII. Laurineae
Order CIV. Proteaceae
Index.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]