CRC ethnobotany desk reference / Timothy Johnson.
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TextPublication details: Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c1999. Description: 1211, [2] p. ; 29 cmISBN: 084931187X (alk. paper)Other title: Ethnobotany desk referenceSubject(s): Ethnobotany -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Materia medica, Vegetable -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Botany -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Plants, Medicinal | EthnobotanyGenre/Form: Handbooks and manuals | Handbooks and manuals.DDC classification: 581.6/3 LOC classification: GN476.73 | .J66 1999NLM classification: 1999 B-925 | QV 766Review: "The CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference contains almost 30,000 concise ethnobotanical monographs of plant species characteristics and an inventory of claimed attributes and historical uses by cultures throughout the world - the most ambitious attempt to date to inventory plants on a global scale and match botanical information with historical and current uses. Sources for this index include the three largest U.S. Government ethnobotany databases, the U.S. National Park Service's NPFLora plant inventory lists, and eighteen leading works on the subject. The arrangement of this material will be of interest to those all over the world who study plants and their uses."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [1213]) and index.
"The CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference contains almost 30,000 concise ethnobotanical monographs of plant species characteristics and an inventory of claimed attributes and historical uses by cultures throughout the world - the most ambitious attempt to date to inventory plants on a global scale and match botanical information with historical and current uses. Sources for this index include the three largest U.S. Government ethnobotany databases, the U.S. National Park Service's NPFLora plant inventory lists, and eighteen leading works on the subject. The arrangement of this material will be of interest to those all over the world who study plants and their uses."--Jacket.