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Ferns and fern-allies are especially well represented in India and are conspicuous almost everywhere by their beautiful and intricately varied foliage. Yet this fascinating group of plants is often rather widely misunderstood due to their great complexity in the area and to a considerable degree of variation, with many erroneous accounts having been published on them in the past. In addition, the last published book covering the whole of India accurately was a ...
Abstract: "Polystichum in the Indian subcontinent has been studied anew in most of the major herbaria of the world. As a result, 45 species are now listed from the area with revised nomenclature, a brief synonymy where important and their detailed range, including that within China. Preliminary correlation of Chinese, Taiwanese and Indo-Himalayan species has also been carried-out and this has involved a re-evaluation of much of the material in Chinese ...
This book tackles a major problem in modern fern-botany, the increasing practice of naming mistaken "new species" etc. Aspects and origins of the problem are discussed and followed by a comprehensive, annotated list of incorrect names given since Independence in 1947 to pteridophytes occurring in the Indian subcontinent, showing where errors were made and what are hoped to be the correct names. The list includes careful and fully detailed taxonomic ...
This book is the story of how the first botanical collectors and plant-hunters began their exciting voyages of discovery in the previously forbidden Kingdom of Nepal, the richest botanical area of the fabled Himalaya, that was just beginning to become accessible in the early nineteenth century. The first was Dr. Francis Buchanan (later Francis Hamilton) in 1802-3, who was a prolific writer of detailed reports on his expeditions and whose collections went to the ...