Any comments on this book would be welcome, on- or off- list. The question
from our library is whether this is a specialist work, or of more general
usefulness (i.e. should they buy a copy for each site, or one only, for the
seedbank). A seed flora for this area could potentially be useful over a
large adjoining region.
Mark
Atlas of Seeds and Fruits of Central and East-European Flora: The Carpathian
Mountains Region
by Vit Bojnansky, Agata Fargsova
Price: about $550
Hardcover: 1200 pages
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers (May 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1402053614
ISBN-13: 978-1402053610
"The Carpathian flora occurs not only in the Carpathian Mountains, but also
in large lowlands extending towards the south, north and east and involves
introduced and invading flora of more than 7,500 species. Since the
morphological characteristics of the seeds are usually constant they are
very important for determination of systematic units. The present atlas of
seeds with nearly 4,800 seed illustrations is supplemented with detailed
seed descriptions, brief plant descriptions, locality and the native source
of plants. This publication is unique, both in its extent - with so many
plant seeds from such a wide-ranging region - and in the form of its
presentation - with such detailed descriptions."
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