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The plant life of China : diversity and distribution

Title
  1. The plant life of China : diversity and distribution / Geoffrey P. Chapman, Yin-Zheng Wang.
Published by
  1. Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2002.
Author
  1. Chapman, G. P. (Geoffrey Peter)

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Additional authors
  1. Wang, Yinzheng.
Description
  1. xii, 256 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 25 cm
Subject
  1. Botany > China
  2. Plants
  3. vegetation
  4. Botany
  5. China
Contents
  1. pt. I. The Setting. 1. An Introduction to Chinese Plant Science. 2. Landscape and Climate. 3. Native Plant Distribution. 4. From Domestication to the Arrival of the Western Plant Collectors -- pt. II. Growth Forms: Some Representative Taxa. 5. Trees -- Colour Plates. 6. Shrubs and Climbers. 7. Herbs. 8. Alpines. 9. Medicinal Plants and the Meeting of Two Traditions -- pt. III. Some Major Genera. 10. Camellia. 11. Anemone and Primula. 12. Rhododendron. 13. Rosa -- pt. IV. Conservation and the Environment. 14. Chinese Plant Diversity and Its Modern Literature. 15. Conservation in Practice -- App. 1. A Summary of Famine Foods Listed in the Chiu Huang Pen Tsao (1406) -- App. 2. Botanic Gardens and Arboreta across China -- App. 3. Chinese Dynasties -- Index of Classical Chinese Texts -- Taxonomic Index -- Sketch Map of China.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-223) and index.