3-735: Flora Mesoamericana is a comprehensive catalog (a flora ) of southern Mexican and Central American plants, written in Spanish. The first volume was published in 1994. It is a collaboration between the Missouri Botanical Garden , the National Autonomous University of Mexico , and the Natural History Museum London. This article about a book on botany or plants is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Flora (publication) A Flora
6-447: A Flora covers can be either geographically or politically defined. Floras usually require some specialist botanical knowledge to use with any effectiveness. A Flora often contains diagnostic keys. Often these are dichotomous keys , which require the user to repeatedly examine a plant, and decide which one of two alternatives given in the Flora best applies to the plant. Floras produced at
9-426: Is a book or other work which describes the plant species occurring in an area or time period, often with the aim of allowing identification. The term is usually capitalized to distinguish it from the use of " flora " to mean the plants rather than their descriptions. Some classic and modern Floras are listed below. Traditionally Floras are books, but some are now published on CD-ROM or websites . The area that
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