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Practical Taxonomy of Angiosperms
Author(s): Rama Kant Sinha
ISBN: 9789380578217
No. of Pages: 416
Publishing Year: 2010
Binding: Paperback
Dimension: 18cm x 24cm
Weight: 610
Subject: Botany
Price:
Rs 345.00 $ 40.00 £ 24.00
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| About the Book:
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| Practical Taxonomy of Angiosperms presents the subject in a systematic manner with well labelled diagrams and flow charts. A sincere effort has been made to make this book more informative and useful by covering all the important aspects of the subject.
Spread in five chapters it deals with:
• Morphology of angiosperms where terminology used in taxonomic description of plants is arranged alphabetically—under subheads stem, leaves, flowers etc.
• Taxonomy of angiosperms. Principles of taxonomy, handling of an artificial key to a flora and diagnostic features of common angiospermic families.
• Description, systematization and identification of 84 plants of 44 families of angiosperms.
• Brief account of 143 plants of different families.
• Comparison of allied common angiospermic families in tabular form.
• Economic importance of 106 familiar plants.
• Differences between allied terminology (e.g. phyllode, phylloclade, silqua & siliqula.) are presented in tabular form.
• Artificial key to the common families of angiosperms.
• Upgraded standard of practical exercises on plant taxonomy. |
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| Contents: |
| Morphology of Angiosperms / Taxonomy of Angiosperms / Description & Identification of angiospermic Plants / Comparison of Some Allied Families of Angiosperms / Economic Botany / Further Reading / Appendix / Index |
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| Audience: |
| Undergraduate students of Botany and Agriculture. |
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