Books by Bernard Verdcourt

Prepared at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in collaboration with the East African Herbarium, the flora is designed to a high academic standard to produce reference for anyone concerned with the identification and utilization of plants in East Africa.

Prepared at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in collaboration with the East African Herbarium, the flora is designed to a high academic standard to produce reference for anyone concerned with the identification and utilization of plants in East Africa.

The "Flora" is prepared at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in close collaboration with East African Herbarium and in liaison with the University of Dar es Salaam, the University of Nairobi and the Makerere University. Significant contributions are also made by specialists elsewhere.

Part of a series of volumes on the flora of tropical East Africa, this text covers the Ptaeroxylaceae family.

Prepared at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in collaboration with the East African Herbarium, the flora is designed to a high academic standard to produce reference for anyone concerned with the identification and utilization of plants in East Africa.

This volume focuses on the Boranginaceae family. They are annual or perennial herbs, often woody at the base, subshrubs, trees or woody climbers, usually characteristically scabrid or hispid and occur in both temperate regions and tropics of old and new worlds with 2000 species.