Flora Europaea

The Flora Europaea presents a synthesis of all the national and regional Floras of Europe.

T. G. Tutin (Edited by), N. A. Burges (Edited by), A. O. Chater (Edited by), J. R. Edmondson (Edited by), V. H. Heywood (Edited by), D. M. Moore (Edited by), D. H. Valentine (Edited by), S. M. Walters (Edited by), D. A. Webb (Edited by), J. R. Akeroyd (Assisted by), M. E. Newton (Assisted by), R. R. Mill (Appendix by)

9780521153669, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 June 2010

630 pages
29.7 x 21 x 3.2 cm, 1.49 kg

Review of the hardback: 'The production of a second edition of the first volume of Flora Europaea is a landmark. The book was first published 29 years ago, and proved a valuable spur to further research. Inevitably the quality of the individual systematic accounts were variable, but the new edition is a great step forward. Many of the accounts have been revised to a high standard by one author, John Akeroyd, and 350 new taxa have been included, hundreds new to science (20 taxa have been deleted). Martin Ingrouille, Nature

Flora Europaea, published between 1964 and 1980, with a second edition of Volume One appearing in 1993, is the definitive account of the flowering plants, ferns and fern-allies of Europe, covering all plants growing in the wild, including many naturalised species and all widely cultivated crop species. It provides full keys and concise descriptions of families, genera, species and subspecies, together with bibliographic details for accepted species, summaries of geographical distribution, chromosome numbers and habitat information. Volume One brings the treatment of the first 79 families up to date. Keys and descriptions have been extensively revised, and many taxa have been incorporated, whilst others have been relegated to synonymy as a consequence of research. All synonyms are cited in the text. The Appendices have been thoroughly revised, and information on geographical distribution critically edited to give an authoritative summary of the occurrence of each species in 39 European territories.

The Flora Europaea organisation
List of contributors
Preface
Preface to the first edition
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements to the first edition
Introduction
List of standard floras
Synopsis of families in volume 1
Keys to major taxa
Explanatory notes to the text
Text
Appendices
Index
Maps.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]