The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-Doors and Under Glass, Volume 3

James Cullen, Sabina G. Knees, H. Suzanne Cubey, J. M. H. Shaw

Cambridge University Press, 11 août 2011 - 640 pages

The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental flowering plants. Designed to meet the highest scientific standards, the vocabulary has nevertheless been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that the work is fully accessible to the informed gardener as well as to the professional botanist. This new edition has been thoroughly reorganised and revised, bringing it into line with modern taxonomic knowledge. Although European in name, the Flora covers plants cultivated in most areas of the United States and Canada as well as in non-tropical parts of Asia and Australasia. Volume III contains accounts of 47 families, including those formerly included in the Leguminosae (Mimosaceae, Caesalpiniaceae, Fabaceae) as well as the large and important Rosaceae. Also included are those families formerly covered by the name Saxifragaceae (Saxifragaceae in the strict sense, Penthoraceae, Grossulariaceae, Parnassiaceae, Hydrangeaceae and Escalloniaceae).

Table des matières

• Key to families: 1
• RESEDACEAE: 13
• PLATANACEAE: 14
• HAMAMELIDACEAE: 15
• CRASSULACEAE: 19
• CEPHALOTACEAE: 95
• GROSSULARIACEAE: 138
• PARNASSIACEAE: 145
• HYDRANGEACEAE: 147
• ESCALLONIACEAE: 165
• CUNONIACEAE: 173
• DAVIDSONIACEAE: 175
• BYBLIDACEAE: 177
• RORIDULACEAE: 178
• Contributors to the first edition ix: 238
• CHRYSOBALANACEAE: 322
• MIMOSACEAE DICOTYLEDONS LEGUMINOSAEMIMOSOIDEAE: 323
• CAESALPINIACEAE LEGUMINOSAE CAESALPINIOIDEAE: 330
• FABACEAE LEGUMINOSAEPAPILIONOIDEAE: 340
• LIMNANTHACEAE: 415
• OXALIDACEAE: 416
• GERANIACEAE: 424
• TROPAEOLACEAE: 467
• ZYGOPHYLLACEAE: 469
• LINACEAE: 471
• EUPHORBIACEAE: 473
• DAPHNIPHYLLACEAE: 503
• CNEORACEAE: 516
• BURSERACEAE: 518
• MELIACEAE: 519
• MALPIGHIACEAE: 520
• POLYGALACEAE: 524
• CORIARIACEAE: 526
• ANACARDIACEAE: 527
• ACERACEAE: 532
• SAPINDACEAE: 554
• HIPPOCASTANACEAE: 556
• MELIOSMACEAE: 558
• MELIANTHACEAE: 560
• BALSAMINACEAE: 561
• CYRILLACEAE: 565
• Glossary: 567
• Index: 579

À propos de l'auteur

James Cullen has been a professional plant taxonomist for over 50 years, working particularly on the classification and identification of plants in cultivation (especially Rhododendron) at Liverpool and Edinburgh Universities, at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and in Cambridge. With the late Dr S. M. Walters, he was the initiator of the first edition of The European Garden Flora and is responsible for two spin-offs, The Orchid Book (1992) and Manual of North European Garden Plants (2001). Sabina Knees is a taxonomist at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh and although now working on plants of the Middle East, particularly the flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra, she spent over 20 years working as a horticultural taxonomist for the Royal Horticultural Society and the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh and is a founder member of the Horticultural Taxonomy Group (HORTAX). She was editor of The New Plantsman for seven years and worked initially as a research associate and then as a member of the editorial committee on the first edition of The European Garden Flora. Suzanne Cubey has worked at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (RBGE) since 1987, originally as a researcher, and then later becoming the Assistant Secretary on the Editorial Board for the first edition of The European Garden Flora. Since 2005 her main role has been as Assistant Herbarium Curator with particular responsibility for the cultivated plants, where she curates the cultivated specimens in the RBGE herbarium and manages the vouchering of research material from the living collections.

Informations bibliographiques

• Titre: The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-Doors and Under Glass, Volume 3; European Garden Flora; Volume 3 de European garden flora, flowering plants; Volume 3 de Resedaceae to Cyrillaceae; Volume 3 de The European Garden Flora 5 Volume Hardback Set; The European Garden Flora, Flowering Plants: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-doors and Under Glass, James Cullen, ISBN 0521761670, 9780521761673
• Rédacteurs: James Cullen, Sabina G. Knees, H. Suzanne Cubey, J. M. H. Shaw
• Édition: illustrée
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0521761557, 9780521761550
• Longueur: 640 pages