This seminal publication began life as a collaborative effort between the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (1811–66) and his German counterpart Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812–81). Relying on many contributors of specimens and descriptions from colonial South Africa - and building on the foundations laid by Carl Peter Thunberg, whose Flora Capensis (1823) is also reissued in this series - they published the first three volumes between 1860 and 1865. These were reprinted unchanged in 1894, and from 1896 the project was supervised by William Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1928), director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. A final supplement appeared in 1933. Reissued now in ten parts, this significant reference work catalogues more than 11,500 species of plant found in South Africa. Volume 7 comprises sections that were published individually between 1897 and 1900, covering Pontederiaceae to Gramineae.
| ISBN: | 9781108068154 |
| Publication date: | 24th July 2014 |
| Author: | William T ThiseltonDyer |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 806 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture |
| Genres: |
Botany and plant sciences |