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Plant Form An Illustrated Guide to Flowering Plant Morphology

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ISBN-10: 088192850X

ISBN-13: 9780881928501

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Adrian D. Bell, Alan Bryan, Alan Bryan

List price: $49.95
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The ideal reference for students of botany and horticulture, gardeners, and naturalists. The diverse external shapes and structures that make up flowering plants can be bewildering and even daunting, as can the terminology used to describe them. An understanding of plant form-plant morphology-is essential to appreciating the wonders of the plant world and to the study of botany and horticulture at every level. In this ingeniously designed volume, the complex subject becomes both accessible and manageable. The first part of the book describes and clearly illustrates the major plant structures that can be seen with the naked eye or a hand lens. The second part focuses on how plants grow:…    
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Book details

List price: $49.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/3/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.036
Language: English

Adrian D. Bell, Ph.D, is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. He has devoted his career to studying, teaching, and writing about plant morphology, serving as Senior Lecturer in the Schools of Plant Biology and Biological Sciences at the University of Wales and as Cabot Fellow at Harvard University.

Alan Bryan studied with Adrian Bell at Bangor University, graduating with honors in Botany. A keen gardener with a lifelong interest in plants, he subsequently trained as a nurse but remains a botanist and illustrator at heart.

Preface
Introduction
Morphological Description
Leaf Morphology
Root Morphology
Stem Morphology
Reproductive Morphology
Seedling Morphology
Vegetative Multiplication
Grass Morphology
Orchid Morphology
Misfits
Constructional Organization
Meristem Position
Meristem Potential
Time of Meristem Activity
Meristem Disruption
Plant Branch Construction
References
Index