Guide d’identification des Arbres du Burkina Faso

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Guide d’identification des Arbres du Burkina Faso Author: Format: Hardback First Published: Published By: Royal Botanic Gardens: Kew Publishing
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Pages: 304 ISBN: 9781842464700 Categories: , ,

The result of over ten years research in collaboration with Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank Project, the book describes over 200 woody plant species, with accompanying keys, colour photographs, distribution maps, information on flowering and fruiting times and local names and uses.
An essential reference for anyone required to know and recognize the woody flora of the forests of Burkina Faso.

Weight0.8 kg
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Moctar Sacande is a seed physiologist and amateur botanist, specialising in the biology of tropical African species. He has published extensively on the subject and has managed several international research projects on these species. He is co-editor of Comparative Storage Biology of Tropical Tree Seeds (International Plant Genetics Resource Institute, 2004) and is involved in research collaborations in several African countries. Lassina Sanou is one of the few botanists with a long and consistent experience on the flora of Burkina Faso. He is based at the herbarium of the National Tree Seed Centre, which contains 10,000 specimens of more than 1,000 species. Henk Beentje is a botanist with a substantial knowledge and experience of the African flora. He is an expert on Compositae and is the editor of Flora of Tropical East Africa. He is author of The Kew Plant Glossary (Kew Publishing, 2010) and co-author of Field Guide to the Mangrove Trees of Africa and Madagascar (Kew Publishing, 2007).