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Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees: North America

By M.M. Grandtner

Book information

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2005
ISBN
9780444517845, 0-444-51784-7
LCC
QK474.87 .G73 2005
Open Library ID
OL3424470M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6381471 bytes)
Volume
Volume 1
Edition
Mul
Pages
1530\1530
Time added
2010-04-25 21:59:20

Description

This dictionary will present all currently accepted generic, specific, sub-specific and variety names of trees, excluding fossil and more recently extinct taxa, hybrids and cultivars. Only the indigenous trees of a continent, those wild species that were natural elements of the spontaneous forest vegetation before the arrival of Europeans or other colonizers, are included. Each generic entry includes the family to which it is assigned, the synonyms of the Latin name, and the English, French, Spanish, trade and other names. For the English and French names the standard name is listed first, followed by other available names with, in parentheses, the countries where they are used. Where appropriate, names in additional languages are also included. Each infrageneric (species, subspecies, variety) entry includes, in addition, the distribution, height, type of foliage, ecological characteristics and main uses of the tree when available. In this volume only taxa indigenous on the North American continent are included, considered in a geographical, not in a political sense. This means from Alaska and Greenland to Panama, including Caribbean, but excluding Hawaii.

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