Flora Australiensis: Volume 2, Leguminosae to Combretaceae
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)

9781108037396, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 December 2011

534 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3 cm, 0.67 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 2, published in 1864, gives descriptions of seven orders of the dicotyledon class of flowering plant.

Conspectus of the orders
Order XL. Leguminosae: Suborder I. Papilionaceae
Suborder 2. Caesalpinieae
Suborder 3. Mimoseae
Order XLI. Rosaceae
Order XLII. Saxifrageae
Order XLIII. Crassulaceae
Order XLIV. Droseraceae
Order XLV. Halorageae
Order XLVI. Rhizophoreae
Order XLVII. Combretaceae
Index.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]