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"The Names of Plants is a handy, two-part reference book for the botanist and amateur gardener. The book begins by documenting the historical problems associated with an ever-increasing number of common names of plants and the resolution of these problems through the introduction of Internation...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gledhill, D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Plants > Nomenclature.
Botany > Dictionaries > Latin (Medieval and modern)
Latin language, Medieval and modern > Dictionaries > English.
Plantes > Nomenclature.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
NATURE > Plants > General.
Botany > Latin (Medieval and modern)
Latin language, Medieval and modern > English.
Plants.
Botany.
Latin language, Medieval and modern.
Pflanzenname
Plantkunde.
Planten.
Nomenclatuur.
Multilingual dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Terminology.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The nature of the problem
  • The size of the problem
  • Towards a solution to the problem
  • The rules of botanical nomenclature: Family names
  • Generic names
  • Species names
  • Epithets commemorating people
  • Geographical epithets
  • Categories below the rank of species
  • Hybrids
  • Synonymy and illegitimacy
  • The international code of nomenclature for cultivated plants
  • Graft chimaeras
  • Botanical terminology.

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