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    The Kew Plant Glossary: An Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Terms

    By Henk Beentje

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    About this ebook

    This accessible, comprehensive glossary covers all the descriptive terms for plants that one is likely to encounter in botanical writing, including everything from magazine articles to plant field guides, scientific papers, and monographs. An essential companion, it presents 3,600 botanical terms, accompanied by full definitions and detailed illustrations to aid in identification, all laid out in a clear, easy-to-use fashion. It will be indispensable for plant scientists, conservationists, horticulturists, gardeners, writers, and anyone working with plant descriptions, plant identification keys, floras, or field guides.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew
    Release dateFeb 15, 2014
    ISBN9781842465295
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    • 5/5
      Possibly one of the most useful glossaries I have seen in a long time, with good, clear and greatly useful definitions, drawing a distinction between rare or outdated terms and those in actual use, as well as specifying which group they are used for (something that cannot be said of Stearn's Botanical Latin or Harris & Harris' Plant Identification Terminology). It would still gain from a better "perspective" approach to various aspects of terminological confusion regarding, for example, the terminology applied to leaf apices.