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George Bentham (1800–84) was one of Britain’s most influential botanists whose seven-volume work detailing the plant life of Australia was published over the course of fifteen years. Volume 7, published in 1878, concludes with descriptions of flora in the classes of monocotyledon and cryptogamae.
Flora Australiensis
A Description of the Plants of the Australian Territory
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824 pages
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Summary
George Bentham (1800–84) was one of Britain’s most influential botanists, whose own collection of plant specimens numbered more than 100,000. Although he donated his herbarium to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1854, he continued to make significant contributions to the field, including this exhaustive, seven-volume work detailing the plant life of Australia, which was published from 1863 to 1878. It was part of a series of works commissioned by the British government to document the flora …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781108037440 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1108037445 |
| Author: | George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 824 |
| Release Date: | 8 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 1.03kg |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 46mm |
| Series: | Flora Australiensis 7 Volume Set |
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