Flora of Egypt – Volume three

نبذة عن كتاب Flora of Egypt – Volume three

This book is the third of four volumes of the flora of egypt. It includes 16 families of native and naturalized plants (verbenaceae – Compositae) arrandged mainly according to engler’s system, and comprising 174 genera, 450 species and 30 infraspecific taxa. The largest families are: Compositae 228 species (98 genera), scrophulariaceae 58 species (17 genera), labiatae 55 species (23 genera), sloanaceae 30 species (8 genera) and plantaginaceae 20 species (1 genera). 384 species and infraspecific taxa are illustrated by line drawings in 77 plates by Margaret Tebbs, Magdy El-Gohary, patricaia davies and sally dawson, as well as 128 colour photographs of some species in their natural habitats by the author, rafik khalil and dina aly.
Families and genera are described keys to genera and species are constructed to facilitate their indentification. For every species, full citations to the accepted name synonyms if any, description, in egypt, habitat and general distribution are given. Notes on the economic uses, geographical distribution, type material from egypt, taxonomic and nomenclatural notes are provided. Indexes to the illustrted taxa and scientific names are presented.