Flora (publication)

Under flora ( plural: floras ) is meant not only the flora and the floral kingdom of a given area, but also a list of all species occurring there.

Since then, the complete collection and compilation of plant diversity in their territory is used by many countries promoted, alongside such national floras but there are also floras for large spaces, such as the Flora of Tropical East Africa, the flora Malesiana ( Malaysia's ) or the Flora Neotropica ( Neotropics ).

By screening a lag changes in the composition, hazards or immigration of neophytes can be determined. In the comparison of different floras worldwide can be determined numerically the biodiversity of an area. This is the tropical rain forest belt within 15 ° north and south latitude the highest. It is mostly about 3000 species in some areas up to 10,000 species per 10,000 square kilometers.

Many floras are provided with an identification key and simultaneously determining book for the plants of a particular area, such as Werner Roth painter Exkursionsflora of Germany.

Floren by country

This list contains the most recent editions of floras and floras excursion. In many cases floras can be used also in neighboring countries,

Europe

Germany

  • Otto Schmeil and Jost Fitschen: Flora of Germany and neighboring countries: a book for determining the wild and often cultured vascular plants. Wiebelsheim Hunsrück: Quelle & Meyer Verlag, 2009 (see Schmeil - hinge plates )
  • Werner Rothmaler: Excursion Flora of Germany. Jena [ etc.]: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1990 In four or five volumes. : Lower plants / baseband
  • Vascular plants
  • Atlas of the vascular plants
  • Critical band
  • Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants

France

  • Paul Fournier: Les quatre flores de France. Corse Comprise. Générale, alpine, méditerranéenne et littoral. Paris: Dunod, 2001

Italy

  • Sandro Pignatti: Flora d' Italia. Bologna: Edagricole, 2003

Austria

  • Manfred Fischer: Exkursionsflora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol: Determination book for all in the Republic of Austria, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Bolzano / South Tyrol Autonomous Province (Italy ) wild and the most important cultured vascular plants ( ferns and seed plants ) with information on their ecology and distribution. Linz: Upper Austrian Provincial Museum, 2008

Switzerland

  • Konrad Lauber and Gerhart Wagner: Flora Helvetica: 3850 color photos of 3000 wild flowers and ferns including important crops, species descriptions and identification keys. Classification by APG III. Bern: Haupt Verlag, 2012 ( 5th edition ). In French, is currently the 4th edition available.
  • August Binz and Heitz Christian: School and Exkursionsflora for Switzerland, with consideration of border areas: identification book for the wild vascular plants. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 1990.
  • Hans Ernst Hess include: identification keys to the flora of Switzerland and adjacent areas. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 1998.

Africa

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

America

Asia

  • Zohary / Feinbrun / Danin: Flora Palaestina, five volumes ( 1966-2007 ). Includes Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, the Israeli-occupied part of Mount Hermon, and Jordan)
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