Flora of Australia (series)
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Australian Biological Resources Study
Australian Biological Resources Study is a project undertaken by Parks Australia Division of Australia's Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts ....
who estimate that the series when complete will describe over 20 000 plant species.
Series
Volume 1 of the series was published in 1981, a second extended edition was released in 1999. The series uses the Cronquist systemCronquist system
The Cronquist system is a taxonomic classification system of flowering plants. It was developed by Arthur Cronquist in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants and The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants .Cronquist's system places flowering plants into two...
of taxonomy. The ABRS also published the Fungi of Australia, the Algae of Australia and the Flora of Australia Supplementary Series.
Other Australian floras
A few censuses of the Australian flora have been carried out, they include- 1793-95 - J. E. SmithJames Edward SmithSir James Edward Smith was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society.Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world...
- Specimen of the Botany of New Holland - 1804-05 - J. E. SmithJames Edward SmithSir James Edward Smith was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society.Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world...
- Exotic Botany - 1804-07 - J. J. H. de LabillardièreJacques LabillardièreJacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière was a French naturalist noted for his descriptions of the flora of Australia. Labillardière was a member of a voyage in search of the La Pérouse expedition...
- Novae Hollandiae Plant. Spec - 1810 - R. BrownRobert Brown (botanist)Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...
- Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van DiemenProdromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van DiemenProdromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen is an 1810 flora of Australia by botanist Robert Brown. Often referred to as Prodromus Flora Novae Hollandiae, or by its standard botanical abbreviation Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland., it was the first attempt at a survey of the Australian flora... - 1814 - R. BrownRobert Brown (botanist)Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...
- Botanical Appendix to Flinders' Voyage - 1849 - R. BrownRobert Brown (botanist)Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...
- Botanical Appendix to C. Sturt, Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia - 1856 - J. D. HookerJoseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
- Introductory Essay, Flora Tasmaniae - 1863-78 - G. BenthamGeorge BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
- Flora AustraliensisFlora AustraliensisFlora Australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian Territory, more commonly referred to as Flora Australiensis, and also known by its standard abbreviation Fl. Austral., is a seven-volume flora of Australia published between 1863 and 1878 by George Bentham, with the assistance of... - 1882 - F. MuellerFerdinand von MuellerBaron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.-Early life:...
- Systematic Census of Australian PlantsSystematic Census of Australian PlantsThe Systematic census of Australian plants, with chronologic, literary and geographic annotations, more commonly known as the Systematic Census of Australian Plants, also known by its standard botanic abbreviation Syst. Census Austral... - 1889 - F. MuellerFerdinand von MuellerBaron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.-Early life:...
- Second Systematic Census - 1990 - R. J. HnatiukRoger HnatiukRoger James Hnatiuk is a Canadian-Australian botanist specialising in biogeography and plant ecology.- Background :Hnatiuk was awarded 1st class honours in botany from the University of Alberta, and went on to graduate with an MSc in plant ecology from the same institution. He was awarded a PhD in...
- Census of Australian Vascular Plants