Guide to Standard Floras of the World: An Annotated, Geographically Arranged Systematic Bibliography of the Principal Floras, Enumerations, Checklists and Chorological Atlases of Different Areas

1125 Pages·2001·5.69 MB·English

by  David G. Frodin

Gu de to Standard Floras of the World
Guide t o Standard Floras of the World is a selective
annotateci bibliography of the principal floras and
related works of inventory for vascular plants. This
new edition has been completely revised, updated and
expanded to take into account the substantialliterature
of the late twentieth century, and features a more fully
developed review of the history of floristic documenta
tion. The works covered are principally specialist pub
lications, encompassing descriptive floras and
checklists, distribu ti o n atlases, systematic iconogra
phies, an d enumerations or catalogues. A relatively few
more popularly oriented books are also included. The
Guide is organized into lO geographical divisions, with
these successively divided into regions and units. Each
geographical uni t or larger region is prefaced with a
historical review of floristic studi es, including refer
ences t o key literature as well as to more specialized
area bibliographies. The bibliography itself is pre
ceded by three generai chapters on botanica! bibliogra
phy, the history of floras, and generai principles and
current trends, and the book concludes with an appen
dix o n bibliographic searching, a lexicon of serial
abbreviations, and author and geographical indices.
DA VID FRODI N is a researcher in the Herbarium a t
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, having previously
held positions in the Department of Biology a t the
University of Papua Ne w Guinea an d the Department
of Botany a t the Academy ofNatural Sciences of
Philadelphia. His botanica! interests focus o n the sys
tematics of the family Araliaceae, particularly the
genus Sche.lflera, while his more generai interests
include tropical biology an d the history of biology. H e
is also an acknowledged authority on botanica! bibliog
raphy, documentation and informatics, having com
piled the first edition of Guide t o Standard Floras ofthe
World ( 1984) an d co-au thored several volumes in the
Kew seri es World Checklists and Bibliographies of See d
Plants, including Magnoliaceae ( 1996), Paga/es ( 1998),
Euphorbiaceae (with Pandaceae) (2000), Sapotaceae
(2000) and Araceae andAcoraceae (2000).
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Guide to
Standard Floras
of the World
An annotated,geographically arranged systematic
bibliography ofthe principal floras,enumerations,
checklists and chorological atlases ofdifferent areas
 
David G. Frodin
Royal Botanic Gardens,Kew
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First published in printed format 1984
Second edition 2001

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Original ISBN 0 521 79077 8 hardback

ISBN 0 511 02067 8 virtual (netLibrary Edition)
To Sidney Fay Blake and Alice Cary Atwood
authors ofGeographical guide to floras of
the world
Phyllis I.Edwards and RudolfSchmid
advocates for biological documentation
and E.J.H.Corner
who eloquently reminded us ofwhat
Floras are for
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Contents
MAPS
I Five-grade map ofthe approximate state ofworld
floristic knowledge as of1979 (from E.Jäger) 12
II The spread ofDivisions 0–9 as used in this book 17
Prologue to the first edition ix
Prologue to the second edition xvi
Acknowledgments for the first edition xix
Acknowledgments for the second edition xxiv
I General introduction
1 An analytical–synthetic systematic bibliography of
‘standard’floras:scope,sources and structure 3
2 The evolution offloras 24
3 Floras at the end ofthe twentieth century:philosophy,
progress and prospects 52
References 78
II Systematic bibliography
Conventions and abbreviations 89
Conspectus ofdivisions and superregions 92
Division 0:World floras,isolated oceanic islands and
polar regions 93
Division 1:North America (north ofMexico) 148
Division 2:Middle America 256
Division 3:South America 309
Division 4:Australasia and islands ofthe southwest
Indian Ocean (Malagassia) 381
Division 5:Africa 434
Division 6:Europe 517
Division 7:Northern,central and southwestern
(extra-monsoonal) Asia 650
Division 8:Southern,eastern and southeastern
(monsoonal) Asia 719
Division 9:Greater Malesia and Oceania 838
Contents
Appendix A:Major general bibliographies,
indices and library catalogues covering world
floristic literature 931
Appendix B:Abbreviations ofserials cited 948
Addenda in proof 968
Geographical index 973
Author index 993
[viii]
Prologue to the first edition
No branch ofbotanical literature is more useful,and at the Of all forms of human activity related to plants,
same time more neglected than [floras] ...For a beginner that ofknowing the kinds,properties and uses ofsuch
[the Flora] is the first,and one ofthe most important aids for plants as grow in one’s Landschaft, or ‘parish’, is
obtaining botanical knowledge. perhaps the longest-established.Most,ifnot all,‘tradi-
de Candolle and Sprengel,Elements ofthe philosophy tional’ cultures centered on the land possess, or once
ofplants(Edinburgh,1821). possessed, a comparatively detailed knowledge of the
localflora,in many cases recognizing the same species
Quatenus bibliotheca in omni scientia primum à studioso (and sometimes genera) as would a modern profes-
evolvi debeat,ita etiam est Botanico maxime necessaria,quum sional botanist;and,in like manner to many ‘advanced’
multiplex usus inde deducitur ... societies, this knowledge is best developed amongst a
Linnaeus,Bibliotheca botanica(Amsterdam,1736; comparatively small circle ofsavants.
reprinted Halle 1747). It is thus not surprising that, in those civiliza-
tions which achieved literacy in the pre-Columbian
Now,there are two different attitudes towards learning from era,this kind ofbotanical knowledge should have come
others.One is the dogmatic attitude oftransplanting to be recorded at an early date.However,such works as
everything,whether or not it is suited to our conditions.This are now known were largely compilations of what was
is no good.The other attitude is to use our heads and learn common knowledge, considerable though this might
those things which suit our conditions,that is,to absorb have been, and for long were conceptually pragmatic.
whatever experience is useful to us.That is the attitude we This obtains, for instance, in the oldest known extant
should adopt. geographically oriented botanical works, the treatises
Mao Tse-tung,27 February 1957,in Quotations from of Theophrastus reporting discoveries on Alexander’s
Chairman Mao Tse-tung(New York,1967). campaigns in the fourth century B.C.E. and Nan-fang
ts’ao mu chuang of the fourth century C.E. on south
China and Indochina,whose post-Columbian semantic
descendants include the Swedish surveys ofLinnaeus,
the many geographical accounts ofdistant lands ofthe
nineteenth century containing substantial botanical
information, and, with greater impersonality, the
Australian and Pacific-area terrain studies by various
military and civilian agencies in the mid-twentieth
century. Not, however, until the rise of the Western
European tradition of independent scientific enquiry
and the consequent development ofa systematics based
on the natureofplants in themselvesrather than on tra-
ditionally pragmatic values did the compilation of
organized area floristic accounts and plant lists become
a distinct activity, which after the Linnean revolution
and during the century ofEuropean colonial expansion
came to constitute a significant proportion of what in
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