Guide to Standard Floras of the World Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue to the first edition
- Prologue to the second edition
- Acknowledgments for the first edition
- Acknowledgments for the second edition
- I General introduction
- II Systematic bibliography
- Conventions and abbreviations
- Conspectus of divisions and superregions
- Division 0: World floras, isolated oceanic islands and polar regions
- Division 1: North America (north of Mexico)
- Division 2: Middle America
- Division 3: South America
- Division 4: Australasia and islands of the southwest Indian Ocean (Malagassia)
- Division 5: Africa
- Division 6: Europe
- Division 7: Northern, central and southwestern (extra-monsoonal) Asia
- Division 8: Southern, eastern and southeastern (monsoonal) Asia
- Division 9: Greater Malesia and Oceania
- Appendix A Major general bibliographies, indices and library catalogues covering world floristic literature
- Appendix B Abbreviations of serials cited
- Addenda in proof
- Geographical index
- Author index
Division 3: South America
from II - Systematic bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue to the first edition
- Prologue to the second edition
- Acknowledgments for the first edition
- Acknowledgments for the second edition
- I General introduction
- II Systematic bibliography
- Conventions and abbreviations
- Conspectus of divisions and superregions
- Division 0: World floras, isolated oceanic islands and polar regions
- Division 1: North America (north of Mexico)
- Division 2: Middle America
- Division 3: South America
- Division 4: Australasia and islands of the southwest Indian Ocean (Malagassia)
- Division 5: Africa
- Division 6: Europe
- Division 7: Northern, central and southwestern (extra-monsoonal) Asia
- Division 8: Southern, eastern and southeastern (monsoonal) Asia
- Division 9: Greater Malesia and Oceania
- Appendix A Major general bibliographies, indices and library catalogues covering world floristic literature
- Appendix B Abbreviations of serials cited
- Addenda in proof
- Geographical index
- Author index
Summary
Gross ist der Einfluss gewesen, welchen die von Humboldt und Bonpland zurükgebrachten botanischen Materialen auf die Ausbuildung der Systematik und die umfassendere Kenntniss der Gestalten im Pflanzenreiche ausgeüt haben.
von Martius, 1860, Akademische Denkreden (1866); quoted in Stearn, Humboldt, Bonpland, Kunth and tropical American botany: 6 (1968).At the foot of Chimborazo, with the zoning of its vegetation before his eyes, Humboldt drafted his Essai sur la Gégraphie des Plantes (1807), which established plant geography as a discipline.
Stearn, ibid.: 116.Botanically South America is the least explored area of the world. This survey … has shown that many large areas and important habitats are still uncollected, in spite of the long history of collection and collectors in South America, and a long tradition of local botanists in some of the countries.
Prance in I. Hedberg (ed.), Systematic botany, plant utilization and biosphere conservation: 55 (1979).This division comprises the entire continent from the Panamanian border southwards to Tierra del Fuego, together with the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands. Associated islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean come within Region 01, while those in the South Atlantic form part of Region 03. The chain of islands off the Caribbean coast, which encompasses Trinidad (with Tobago), the islands of the Venezuelan state of Nueva Esparta, and thence westwards to Aruba – once, with the nearby mainland, known as the ‘Spanish Main’ – is here included with the West Indies (as Regions 28 and 29).
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- Guide to Standard Floras of the WorldAn Annotated, Geographically Arranged Systematic Bibliography of the Principal Floras, Enumerations, Checklists and Chorological Atlases of Different Areas, pp. 309 - 380Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001