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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 5 appeared in three parts, the second comprising sections published between 1915 and 1925, covering Thymelaeaceae to Ceratophylleae. The 1933 supplement on Gymnospermae is also incorporated in this reissue.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Botany & plant sciences

• Full title: Flora Capensis
• Subtitle: Being a Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria and Port Natal, and Neighbouring Territories
• Author: Arthur W. Hill, William T. Thiselton-Dyer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672
• EAN: 9781108068123
• ISBN: 110806812X
• ID: 04769067
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 770 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. July 2014

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