Book ID: 90986
Shui Yu - ming and Chen Wen - hong (eds.)
Seed Plants of the Karst Region in China. Volume 1: Southeast Yunnan. 2006. 1900 coloured photographs. 260 p. 4to. Hardcover. - Bilingual (Chinese / English).
The first volume in a new series, It covers 696 wild species of 331 genera in 93 families, all from the Karst region of Southeastern Yunnan in China. Every species described, distribution and usage is given, photographs of habitat, flowers and fruits, followed by voucher specimens and herbaria, where they are deposited. Focus is on tropical, difficult and endemic taxa of seed plants. Includes photographs of 74 new taxa, 13 new records for China and 14 new records for Yunnan.