Supplement to Palms of the World

by Langlois, Arthur C

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Book description: Florida USA: Horticultural Books, 1980. Publishers original green cloth with black lettering to spine. Minor rubbing to top and base of spine, and corners. Dustwrapper: clipped, loss along flap edge of front cover, chipping to top and base of spine and corners, rubbing to surfaces, now protected in Brodart. Pale olive green endpapers, previous owners name to front endpaper. 252pp including index. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs throughout text. Pages clean and bright in firm binding. Published in 1959, James C McCurrach's Palms of the World contained over 400 illustrations covering 140 substantially well known palm genera. This book is presented as a supplement to the earlier volume. It provides a compilation of data on rare palms, including more than 250 photographs of over 100 genera, many never before illustrated. The author has spent forty years studying these beautiful trees and has included much information of interest to palm enthusiasts. He gives a general description of the trees with interesting notes and observations by original observers, reminiscent of the accounts by the early botanical explorers. Generic transfers, intergeneric transfers and elevations of species to genus status have been included. These most recent findings aid in making relationships among the palm genera more readily discernible. Contributions by many persons throughout the tropical world removed quite a few genera from obscurity and made this book possible. This book constitutes an unparalleled reference work for both the amateur student of palms and the palm botanist.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

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