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

Material type: TextTextLanguage: Publication details: [Edinburgh] : (c/o Royal Botanic Garden, Arboretum Row, Edinburgh 3), c1971.Description: x, 335 p., 3 plates : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 703077000
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • QK 341 .P53 1971

Includes bibliographies.

Contents: Foreword—Introductory Address

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.

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.

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