Book ID: 76231
Manickam, V. S. and S. Dominic Rajkumar
Polymorphic Ferns of the Western Ghats, South India. 1999. 26 col. photographs. XX, 302 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Details on the taxonomy, cytology and ecology of ten species complexesof ferns. Approximately 20 different morphological characters havebeen studied in about 1000 specimens. The extent of variations in thespecies complexes dealt with is established for the first time. Thiswill help condiderably to avoid taxonomic confusions in describingnew species. So far diversity has been known only at the species level.In this book for the first time diversity at the intraspecific level isbeing dealt with.