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 0: World floras, isolated oceanic islands and polar regions
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
It may appear paradoxical, at first sight, to associate the plants of Kerguelen's Land with those of Fuegia, separated by 140 degrees of longitude, rather than with those of Lord Auckland's Group, which is nearer by about 50 degrees. But the features of the Flora of Kerguelen's Land are similar to, and many of the species identical with, those of the American continent, constraining me to follow the laws of botanical affinity in preference to that of geographical position.
J. D. Hooker, Flora antarctica (1846).[Our main objective is] to assist the tyro in the verification of genera and species … natural habit is often a safer guide than minute microscopic characters. [Such structural details are unimportant.]
W. J. Hooker, Species filicum, vol. 3 (1859).[There is a] widely held, but erroneous, idea that the floras and vegetations of coral atolls are very much alike everywhere and therefore not much worth studying.
F. R. Fosberg, ‘Coral island vegetation’; in O. A. Jones and R. Endean, Biology and geology of coral reefs, vol. 3 (Biology, 2): 260 (1976).Apart from general world floras (000), major chorological atlases (001, including Die Pflanzenareale by E. Hannig and H. Winkler), and worldwide works relating to the vascular plants of particular physiographically defined habitats (002–009), this division comprises three geographical superregions: 01–04, Isolated oceanic islands; 05–07, North Polar regions; and 08–09, South Polar regions. The geographical limits and the bio-history of each are considered beneath their respective headings.
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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. 93 - 147Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001