By Kirk R. Johnson

Published in organization with the hot York Botanical Garden

The handbook of Leaf Architecture is a vital reference for describing, evaluating, and classifying the leaves of flowering crops. This handbook, illustrated with dozens of line drawings and greater than three hundred photos of ready stained leaves, offers a framework with comparative examples permitting constant and exact description of either smooth and fossil leaves. This unique source can be useful to a extensive variety of people that paintings with vegetation, from paleobotanists to systematists to tropical ecologists.

The Manual permits the outline and id of crops independently in their flora, providing specially worthwhile counsel with regards to fossil leaves (usually present in isolation) and tropical vegetation, whose flowering cycles may be short and abnormal, and whose end result and vegetation will be tough to entry. It presents long-needed guidance for characterizing the association, form, venation, and margins of the leaves of flowering plants.

Beginning with a collection of illustrated definitions of leaf characters, this handbook proceeds to outline and illustrate the differences on every one of those characters. The method offered this is in line with a greatly established scheme yet has been considerably improved and sophisticated throughout the designated exam of hundreds of thousands of residing and fossil leaves.