Plant taxonomic expertise: An inventory for southern Africa

SABONET Report No. 10
M. Mössmer & C.K. Willis
2000
A4, soft cover, 350 pp.
ISBN 1-919795-53-7
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Plant taxonomic expertise is an inventory of local and overseas taxonomists and other plant diversity experts with knowledge of southern African plants. The book contains the biographical, contact, expertise and interest information of 202 plant taxonomic experts, as well as a selected bibliography of publications. It covers 225 plant families and 1,300 genera. The main directory of experts, combined with several detailed indices, makes it easy to find information from a number of different starting points. For example, you can look up the details of a specific person in the alphabetical main directory. Or, you can find out the names of everybody interested in a specific plant genus or plant family. You can also find information by research interest, such as "Ethnobotany", or geographical region, for example, "Angola". You can also look up experts by country, institution and herbarium acronym. A selected bibliography of publications by the listed experts is included at the end of the book. Publications are arranged by author name, as well as by taxon name.

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