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 9: Greater Malesia and Oceania
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
The great ‘Horn of Plenty’, the cornucopia of our Malaysian Flora, which was opened by van Rheede and by Rumphius shall still flow for a long time. I wish great joy to those that shall have the privilege to examine its contents.
L. G. M. Baas Becking, Flora Malesiana, I, 4: iii (1948).It is not merely new species and rarities about which we want to learn, but the real occurrence of widespread plants. It would be useful to draw up lists of at least 100 species … which botanical explorers should know in order to record their distribution.
E. J. H. Corner, Pacific Science Information Bulletin24(3/4): 19 (1972).In the end, a practical taxonomy must rest on a limited number of characters which are observable without very elaborate equipment, which is one reason why uninformed academic botanists regard it as unscientific. I hope and believe that this Flora is producing new contributions to that end.
R. E. Holttum, Flora Malesiana, II, 1: (17) (1982).Progress in taxonomy and biology in general is closely linked with identification. To teach botany (and ecology in particular) in a country without a practical Flora must be a thankless task.
P. H. Davis and V. H. Heywood, Principles of angiosperm taxonomy: 266 (1963).This almost entirely insular division comprises Peninsular Malaysia and all islands east and south of the Nicobar Islands, the Paracel and Spratly Islands, Botel Tobago (off the south coast of Taiwan), and the Bonin (Ogasawara) and Volcano (Kazan) Islands and north of the continent of Australia (with the Torres Strait and Ashmore and Cartier Islands), Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, and the Kermadecs.
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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. 838 - 930Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001