By Andrew Henderson
Southern Asia is an unlimited and ecologically diversified zone that extends from the deserts of Afghanistan to the rainforests of Thailand, and is domestic to a marvelously wealthy palm vegetation. "Palms of Southern Asia" is the one whole box advisor to the forty three genera and 352 species of hands and rattans that take place in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. This beautiful guide's good-looking illustrations and succinct, authoritative, and jargon-free textual content make identity effortless.
Each species account comprises the right kind medical and customary names, and completely describes morphology, habitat, and makes use of. that includes a distribution map for many species and 256 full-color photos, this is often additionally the one box consultant to hide the super various palm flowers of Vietnam, and the 1st to supply a taxonomic review of the rattan species of Southern Asia.
Palms of Southern Asia is a e-book of significant value for botanists and a useful reduction for naturalists and conservationists, and it's the correct box advisor for ecotourists touring within the zone.
• Covers all 352 evidently happening fingers in Southern Asia
• positive aspects full-color pictures of 256 species, many by no means ahead of illustrated
• incorporates a distribution map for many species
• offers the 1st taxonomic review of the rattans of Southern Asia
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Palustris. 5a. Leaflets rhomboidal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. bousigonii. 5b. Leaflets linear, linear-lanceolate, or lanceolate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6. 6a. 5 m long with 8–13 leaflets per side, the apical ones inserted close together in a fan shape, the apical pair joined at their bases . . . . . . . C. tetradactylus. 6b. Leaf rachis 1–3 m long with 16–65 leaflets per side, the apical ones not inserted close together in a fan shape, the apical pair not joined at their bases .
3. 3a. Stems solitary; Lanyu Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. siphonospathus. 3b. Stems clustered; all other areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. formosanus. (continued) 42 Calamus Key to the Species of Calamus by Country or Region (continued) 4a. Stems nonclimbing, free-standing or short and subterranean; knees, flagella, and cirri usually absent; inflorescence bracts without clawed spines . . . . . . . . . . 5. 4b. Stems climbing; knees, flagella, and/or cirri usually present; inflorescence bracts with clawed spines .
C. thwaitesii. 11b. Leaf sheaths without ridges, the spines greenish or brownish . . . . . . . . . C. viminalis. 12a. Leaf sheaths spines longer at sheath apices, sometimes only a few spines longer but then ocreas prominent, to 10 cm long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13. 12b. Leaf sheath spines not longer at sheath apices; ocreas seldom prominent . . . . . . . . 14. 13a. Leaf sheath spines longer at sheath apices, arranged in a fan; ocreas inconspicuous . .