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    Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges 2: Daisies, Heaths, Peas, Saltbushes, Sundews, Wattles and Other Shrubby and Herbaceous Dicotyledons
    Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges 2: Daisies, Heaths, Peas, Saltbushes, Sundews, Wattles and Other Shrubby and Herbaceous Dicotyledons
    Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges 2: Daisies, Heaths, Peas, Saltbushes, Sundews, Wattles and Other Shrubby and Herbaceous Dicotyledons
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    Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges 2: Daisies, Heaths, Peas, Saltbushes, Sundews, Wattles and Other Shrubby and Herbaceous Dicotyledons

    By Enid Mayfield

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    This visually superb and informative field guide is the second volume of Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges, and covers more than 480 species of Daisies, Heaths, Peas, Saltbushes, Sundews, Wattles and other shrubby and herbaceous Dicotyledons. The illustrated family key is unique and covers 75 families and over 200 genera. Each species is illustrated and labels provide a clear key to identification for botanists and amateurs alike.

    The Otway region of Victoria, with its temperate rainforests, mountain ash forests, heathlands, plains and coastal dunes, has an extraordinarily rich and diverse flora.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCSIRO PUBLISHING
    Release dateApr 10, 2013
    ISBN9780643108349
    Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges 2: Daisies, Heaths, Peas, Saltbushes, Sundews, Wattles and Other Shrubby and Herbaceous Dicotyledons
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    Enid Mayfield

    Enid Mayfield is an Honorary Associate of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Victoria, Australia. She has contributed to the Flora of Australia project and many other publications, including her own two-volume Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges. Enid is notable for her skill in researching complex scientific topics and then writing and illustrating them to be accessible to a wider audience.

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      Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges 2 - Enid Mayfield

      HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

      DICOTYLEDONS

      CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILIES

      Use the genus illustrations in ‘Characteristics of Families’ to find a look-alike for your plant.

      Each family in the region has one or more genera and all are illustrated.

      The book is arranged alphabetically first under family, then genus, then species and sub-species.

      Genus name: Gratiola

      Veronica

      Plantago

      Family name: PLANTAGINACEAE

      Common names of plants in the family: Plantain, Brooklime, Derwentia, Veronica

      Family description: Herbs or shrubs; leaves mostly opposite, sometimes seemingly rosetted; flowers regular or weakly 2-lipped, in spikes, racemes or solitary; fruit a capsule.

      QUICK PLANT FINDER

      COMMON NAME, SCIENTIFIC NAME, FAMILY

      The Quick Plant Finder at the beginning of the book allows you to quickly locate the scientific name and common name of a plant and the family to which it belongs.

      You can also find the common name of a plant if you know the scientific name, and the scientific name if you know the common name.

      GLOSSARY

      Find the meaning of botanical terms in the glossary at the back of the book.

      stamen the male reproductive organ of a flower consisting of a pollen-bearing anther, usually, but not always, on a filament.

      Some features of the pages you will see throughout the book.

      Family name: PLANTAGINACEAE

      Common names of plants in the family: PLANTAIN, BROOKLIME, DERWENTIA, VERONICA

      Genus description

      Perennial, minutely gland-dotted herbs. Leaves are opposite, simple and 3-veined at the base. Inflorescences are racemes or spikes, or flowers solitary in the axils of the leaf-like bracts. The 5 sepals are free. The corolla is tubular and more or less 2-lipped, the upper lip 2-lobed and the lower lip 3-lobed. There are 2 stamens, and sometimes 2 staminodes, inside the corolla tube. The fruit is a capsule with a persistent style. Seeds are numerous.

      20 species, with at least 5 in Australia

      Genus features

      Compare the images and the labels for the key to what makes this genus different from others in the family

      flowers

      fruit

      Flowering time may be given in months or seasons

      OTPL = Otway Plain

      OTRA = Otway Ranges

      Clematis aristata Mountain Clematis

      QUICK PLANT FINDER

      COMMON NAME, SCIENTIFIC NAME, FAMILY

      Plants are organised alphabetically in the text first by family then by genus and species. If you know the scientfic name or the common name use the Quick Plant Finder to quickly identify the family then locate the plant in the text.

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