Book ID: 115430
Sauerbier, Herbert, Francisco Cabrera Calixto and Thomas Muer
Flora Vascular de Canarias. 2nd revised and enlarged edition. 2024. 3000 col. photogr. 1548 p. gr8vo. Hardcover. - In Spanish.
Foreword to the second edition (translated):
"This second edition contains 40 more pages than the first edition, with 30 species and subspecies, some of them endemic and described for the first time. In addition, some new population data for some species have been included, some errors detected in the first edition have been corrected and some photographs have been replaced by others of better quality."
A book that allows the reader to identify almost all the plants of the Canary Islands archipelago. It describes more than 2200 species, subspecies and endemic, autochthonous, introduced and invasive varieties.
A book of 1548 pages and more than 3000 photographs, with a high level of detail that includes even the rarest and most recently described species.
The taxon sheets include detailed descriptions, flowering, habitat and distribution, as well as detailed identification keys for endemic genera.
It also includes interesting chapters on the history of botany on the islands, geology, climate, biogeography, phytosociology... in a comprehensive introduction.
In addition to the species sheets, there are chapters dedicated to the history of botany in the Canary Islands, geography, description of the islands, geological origin, nature, climate, bioclimatic levels...
At the end of the book there is an extensive bibliography, a glossary of botanical terms, and two indexes (common names and scientific names).