Flora Capensis : Being a Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria and Port Natal, and Neighbouring Territories. Volume 5 Part 1 Acanthaceae to Proteaceae / Edited by William T. Thiselton-Dyer.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge library collection. Botany and Horticulture.Publisher: Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, 1901Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Description: 1 online resource (768 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
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This seminal publication began life as a collaborative effort between the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (1811-66) and his German counterpart Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812-81). Relying on many contributors of specimens and descriptions from colonial South Africa - and building on the foundations laid by Carl Peter Thunberg, whose Flora Capensis (1823) is also reissued in this series - they published the first three volumes between 1860 and 1865. These were reprinted unchanged in 1894, and from 1896 the project was supervised by William Thiselton-Dyer (1843-1928), director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. A final supplement appeared in 1933. Reissued now in ten parts, this significant reference work catalogues more than 11,500 species of plant found in South Africa. Volume 5 appeared in three parts, the first comprising sections published between 1901 and 1912, covering Acanthaceae to Proteaceae.
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