Aquatic plants of Australia : a guide to the identification of the aquatic ferns and flowering plants of Australia, both native and naturalized
"Acquatic Plants of Australia," the product of many years of painstaking work, is one of the few professionally written thematic studies on Australian plants with a taxonomic bias and it has quickly become an indispensible reference for both professional and amateur botanists. The study opens with an introduction which briefly discusses the features of an aquatic plant and the climate and physiography of Australia. What follows is remarks on how to use the book and an illustrated glossary. The whole of the main text, excepting for the treatment of Characcae (algae) and Ricciaceae (hepatics) is devoted to ferns and fern allies, monocotyledons and dicotyledons. Within each of these three major groups, species are arranged alphabetically according to family and then genus. Where appropriate, keys to genera and species are provided and the leads of each couplet in the keys are clear and concise. Although a key to the families of monocotyledons and dicotyledons would have been useful, its absence does not seriously detract from the book
Print Book, English, 1973
Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic., 1973