Author | Jermy A.C., Simpson, D.A., Foley, M.J.Y. & Porter, M.S. |
Year | 2007 |
Title | Sedges of the British Isles |
ISBN | 9 780901 158352 |
Series | BSBI Handbooks |
Type | Book/Report |
How Complete | All the British species known at the time |
Source | BSBI Handbooks, No 1, Third edition, 554pp, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) |
Illustrations | Line drawings facing the species descriptions |
Review (by Malcolm Storey) | The third edition of this standard work is greatly expanded: in scope (to include distribution maps, full descriptions of hybrids, and covering the whole of the Cyperaceae), in format (from 18x12cm to 21x15cm), and number of pages (from 268 to 554). With the larger format and at more than twice the thickness it no longer slips quite so unobtrusively into the rucksack! |
News | A new edition is expected in 2007 |
Examine | with x8 or x10 hand lens |
Specimen Preparation | Select specimens with mature utricles. |
Identification difficulty | Given suitably ripe material, sedges are mostly quite straightforward. When not in fruit, they are much more difficult. |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
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For identification, contains Checklist, Distribution map | Current | CYPERACEAE | cotton-grasses, spike-rushes and sedges | Plantae: Poales |
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