Plants of Central Asia
Plant Collections from China and Mongolia
Volume 6: Equisetaceae-Butomaceae Bibliography (Supplement 1)
V.I. Grubov (Editor-in-Chief)
ISBN 978-1-57808-117-2; 2002; 100 pages; US $ 61.60      Buy Now

Covers families Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae and up to family Butomaceae of monocotyledons in Angiospermae. Some 79 species to 20 genera of 14 small famlies are reviewed. Contains a list of references of the flora of Central Asia, supplementing the bibliography given in volume 1.

This volume provides infiormation on horsetails, club-mosses, conifers, joint-firs and several small families of monocotyledons standing at the beginning of the system, from Typhaceae to Butomaceae as well as a upplementary bibliographic list of works on the flora of Central Asia. In the Engler system, this volume comes immediately after the first which contained a list of ferns. Joint-firs and confers represent the most important and interesting groups int his volume. While joint-fers fall among the main characteristic plants of wastelands, conifers represent the main species of hill forests (larch, spruce, pine and juniper).