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 7: Northern, central and southwestern (extra-monsoonal) Asia
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
On a publié des catalogues des flores locales, mais tous [les] riches matéiaux étaient épars, sans liaison entr'eux, souvent difficiles à consulter; il était [donc] indispensable de les reunir, de les comparer, de les relier ensemble, et c'est le travail que j'aborde aujourd'hui.
Boissier, Flora orientalis, 1: i (1867).The methodological basis of the work on the Flora URSS was the morphological–geographical method, the concept of the race as an actual biogeographical unit. That [this method] was generally adopted … is by no means fortuitous. Those who live and work in the USSR … cannot but think in terms of geography … This ideological trend and the progressive character of the Flora URSS are frequently ignored, and are possibly not sufficiently well understood by foreign botanists.
E. G. Bobrov, Nature205: 1048 (1965).For me, the genesis of any Flora is always an interesting topic … The genesis of [the Flora of Turkey, Flora Iranica and Flora of Pakistan are] particularly so in that all of them owe their inception and development to an individual – not to a government, or an institute or an advisory committee.
I. C. Hedge in Plant life of South Asia (eds. S. I. Ali and A. Ghaffar), p. 32 (1991).Generally speaking, Division 7 comprises that half of the Asiatic continent which is for the most part boreal, cool-temperate, semi-arid or arid; in other words, it is largely beyond the influence of the summer monsoon.
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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. 650 - 718Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001