Higher Plants of China (Volume 7)

Author: Fu Liguo
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Publish Date: 2000-10-01
Features: A New Illustrated flora of Higher Plants in China is a comprehensive and practical work on Chinese plant taxonomy, featuring complete families and genera, a wide variety of species, accurate of Chinese and Latin names, and a rich combination of text and illustrations. The book records approximately 20,000 plant species, including common forest, vegetation, and garden species, economically or scientifically valuable species, species widely distributed across more than two provinces or neighboring countries but only found in certain peripheral provinces in China, representative species of each genus, and common introduced and cultivated exotic species. The book is published in 13 volumes. This is the seventh volume, covering the Mimosaceae to Celastraceae. Each plant entry includes descriptions of morphology, distribution, and habitat, with some species also noting their main uses. Each plant is accompanied by a morphological illustration and a county-level geographical distribution map. The illustrations include newly drawn figures, reproductions of original plates from Illustrated Floras, and figures copied from previously published floras or journals, all annotated with the names of the original artists or the sources. Some plants are also accompanied by color plates.