The Kew Plant glossary : an illustrated dictionary of plant terms / Henk Beentje.
By: Beentje, Henk [author]
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Contributor(s): Williamson, Juliet [illustrator ].
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BookPublisher: Richmond : Kew Publishing, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Edition: Second edition.Description: 185 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), 24 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781842466049 (paperback) ; 1842466046 (paperback) .Subject(s): Plants | Plants -- Identification | Botany -- DictionariesDDC classification: 580 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 580 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Recommended reading for MTU Cork module BOTA8003 | 00214781 | |
| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 580 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Recommended reading for MTU Cork module BOTA8003 | 00214780 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This plant glossary includes all descriptive terms used in floras, plant field guides and monographs. This is an essential companion for anyone working with plant descriptions, plant identification keys, floras, monographs and field guides. In this second edition 4,500 botanical terms are described with accompanying illustrations, including a new section on vegetation terms and an updated colour section.'Catnip for the garden geek...this fascinating, authoritative volume may seduce even the most casual browser.'The New York Times, 27 May 2010
Glossary -- Symbols -- Suffixes -- Prefixes -- Abbreviations -- Botanical terms -- Grouped terms -- Vegetation terms -- Color terms.
"Kew's highly acclaimed plant dictionary clearly defines 4,905 entries used by botanists to describe plants in textbooks, scientific papers, floras and field guides. This second edition includes 400 new terms including a section of vegetation types, and more than 730 entries are illustrated with detailed line drawings as well as 32 plates of grouped terms. The Kew Plant Glossary provides an essential reference for students, teachers, researchers, conservationists, horticulturalists, agriculturalists and gardeners."-- Cover.
MTU Cork module BOTA8003 - Recommended reading
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. v)
- Acknowledgements (p. vii)
- Bibliography and websites used (p. viii)
- Glossary (p. 1)
- Symbols (p. 1)
- Suffixes (p. 1)
- Prefixes (p. 2)
- Abbreviations (p. 3)
- Botanical terms (incorporating 716 blocks with over 730 images) (p. 5)
- Grouped terms
- Three-dimensional shapes - plate 1 (p. 145)
- Two-dimensional shapes - plates 2-4 (p. 146)
- Division and branching - plates 5-6 (p. 149)
- Arrangement and direction - plates 7-9 (p. 151)
- Surfaces - plates 10-12 (p. 154)
- Roots - plate 13 (p. 157)
- Stems and roots - plate 14 (p. 158)
- Position, direction, buds and growth - plate 15 (p. 159)
- Stems: shoots, outgrowths - plate 16 (p. 160)
- Leaves - plates 17-18 (p. 161)
- Inflorescences - plates 19-21 (p. 163)
- Flowers - plates 22-24 (p. 166)
- Fruits and seeds - plates 25-27 (p. 169)
- Specialised terms for selected groups - plates 28-31 (p. 172)
- Basic cladistic/phylogenetic concepts - plate 32 (p. 175)
- The Raunklaer system - plate 33 (p. 176)
- Tree bark types - plate 34 (p. 177)
- Vegetation terms (p. 178)
- Colour terms (p. 180)