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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136791703321

Autore

Malaisse François

Titolo

Copper-cobalt flora of Upper Katanga and Copperbelt [[electronic resource] ] : field guide: over 400 plants, 1,000 photographs and 500 drawings  / / François Malaisse, Michel Schaijes, Claire D’ Outreligne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gembloux, : Uliège Library, 2016

Gembloux, Belgium : , : Les Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (422 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Soggetti

Heavy-metal tolerant plants

Heavy-metal tolerant plants - Congo

Heavy-metal tolerant plants - Zambia

Congo (Democratic Republic) Kantanga

Zambia Copperbelt Province

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The copper-cobalt outcrops of Upper Katanga and north-western Zambia host a particular flora which comprises an estimated 750 species of which more than 400 are treated in this copper-cobalt field guide. The aim of this book, resulting from several years of intensive field work and study, is to bring together the basic knowledges permitting an easy approach to the identification of a great number of the species to be encountered. More than 400 species are illustrated with color photographs and/or drawings together with comments concerning synonyms, habit, description, ecology and distribution. Plant species are listed and colour-coded according to classification: Cyanoprocaryota, lichenized Fungi, Anthocerophyta, Marchantiophyta and Bryophyta (red edge), Lycophyta and Monilophyta (green edge), Magnoliopsida (blue edge) and Liliopsida (yellow edge). An index allows easy location either according to genus and species. An account of the



research on copper-cobalt ecosystems carried out during the last ten years in southeastern D.R. Congo is also presented. The editors have spent more than twenty years in the area concerned and have collected more than 8,500 voucher specimens, including eleven species new to science (holotypes).