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What an absolute treasure it is.... This book has already become one of my most beloved natural history books. -- George Bryant, Member, Board of Directors, Past-President, Field Botanists of Ontario Field Botanists of Ontario Newsletter (12/01/2008)

The original edition of this reference appeared in 1978, and was updated and revised in 1994. Now, a completely new team of editors and authors has compiled a third iteration of this valuable resource. The original edition discussed 306 families; this one has 506.... General references are included now in addition to those after individual families, a major improvement over the earlier books. The Classification segment has been updated in the past 13 years and recognizes a consensus arrangement of the families markedly different from earlier books. The illustrated glossary is republished and remains a prime short resource for botanical terms... Colors too have been changed on the distribution maps, and it is easier to see where some gaps exist in ranges... The book is not perfect, but it comes close... You will not find a better source for these data.--Daniel F. Austin, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Economic Botany, Vol. 64 (01/01/2011)

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A. Culham is a plant geneticist in the School of Plant Sciences, University of Reading, England. 0. Seberg is professor of Molecular Systematics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark and has published works on a wide range of botanical topics. V.H. Heywood is professor emeritus in the School of Plant Sciences, University of Reading, England. He co-edited all five volumes of Flora Europaea and is a member of several international taxonomic and plant conservation organizations. R.K. Brummitt is a plant taxonomist and the coauthor of The Authors of Plant Names, considered to be the worldwide standard in taxonomic description.

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