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Plant life of south-west Asia / edited by Peter H. Davis, Peter C. Harper and Ian C. Hedge.

Statement of responsibility:

Publication/Distribution (Imprint):

[Edinburgh] : (c/o Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Row, Edinburgh 3), c1971.

Physical Description:

x, 335 p., 3 plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Language:

ISBN:

703077000

Subjects--Topical Terms:

Botany – Middle East – Congresses.
Phytogeography – Middle East – Congresses.

Class. No:

QK 341 .P53 1971

Accession No:

20962

General Note:

Includes bibliographies.

General Note:

Contents: Foreword—Introductory Address

General Note:

by H. R. Fletcher—Part 1. Distribution patterns, phytochoria and vegetational changes—Part 2. Floristic relationships between distant areas with Mediterranean type climates—Part 3. Biosystematics—Part 4. Origins of crop plants and centres of genetic diversity—Part 5. Problems of plant conservation—Part 6. Co-ordination of floristic work.

General Note:

A record of the papers and the discussions presented at the symposium which accompanied the Tercentenary celebrations of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, June 3 to 6, 1970.