Seed plants of southern tropical Africa: families and genera
SABONET
Report No. 26
O.A. Leistner
2005
A4, soft cover, 498 pp.
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Seed plants of southern tropical Africa documents the flora of Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The flora of the five countries comprises 228 families, 2,032 genera, and 11,637 species. The book is intended as a companion volume to Seed plants of southern Africa: families and genera (available from SANBI), which covered Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho, and is aimed at the serious student of our botanical diversity. It provides identification keys to all families and genera of seed plants indigenous to and naturalised in the region. Families and genera are critically described, together with notes on their distribution and size, both local and worldwide, and with lists of the most important literature. The latest views on relationships of families are reflected by means of dendrograms, and the classification of genera within the larger families is given. For easy reference, genera are arranged alphabetically within their family, and families are presented in alphabetical sequence within the three major groups: gymnosperms, dicotyledons and monocotyledons. A comprehensive glossary and an index to family and genus names conclude the work.
Download cover (630 KB), title and contents pages (130 KB), introduction, identification of families, Gymnosperms - pages 1-54 (415 KB), Dicotyledons (continued) - pages 55-109 (366 KB), pages 110-171 (383 KB), pages 172-234 (399 KB), pages 235-297 (393 KB), pages 298-355 (374 KB), pages 356-405 (341 KB), pages 406-494 (528 KB)
