The Trees of Sonora, MexicoTucson Richard Stephen Felger Executive Director Drylands Institute, AZ, University of Arizona Matthew Brian Johnson Program Manager and Curator Desert Legume Program, Tucson Michael Francis Wilson Research Director Drylands Institute, AZ Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 M03 31 - 400 páginas The definitive treatment of the trees and tree-like plants of Sonora, a remarkably diverse and biologically important region, ranging from some of the driest and hottest areas in North America to cool, temperate woodlands and the northernmost tropical regions in the New World. The majority of the trees in this semi-arid region are at their northern limits in the Americas in this state and many range to South America. Thus, this book will be important to biologists in regions well outside of the area covered. Felger is the recognized expert in the area, and the book contains an enormous body of information nowhere else obtainable. The introductory chapter contains biotic and climatic information and an analysis of the geographical distributions of the trees of a state that is poorly known biologically. Two hundred eighty-five species of native and naturalized trees are covered, featuring extensive identification keys and illustrations, most of them newly produced for this book. The descriptive species accounts include common names, indigenous names, and synonyms, detailed botanical descriptions, ecological and geographic data, geographic ranges, natural history, economic uses, and, in many cases, other information such as horticultural uses and conservation status. |
Contenido
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Key to the Major Groups and Families | 27 |
Species Accounts | 33 |
Dicots | 52 |
Monocots | 324 |
Literature Cited | 342 |
Términos y frases comunes
Alamos America anthers arizonica arroyos Baja California Baja California Sur bark branches broadly brown buds Bursera calyx Chihuahua cm Figure cm in diameter cm wide cones conspicuous corolla cultivated dioecious Drawn by M. B. drought deciduous east-central Sonora eastern Sonora elliptic evergreen fleshy fruits genera glabrate glabrous glands grassland gray green Guarijío Guaymas habitats hairs hairy Herbage Inflorescences lanceolate leaf blades leaflets leaves lobes M. B. Johnson male flowers margins entire Mexico nectary northern oak woodland ovary ovate OWD POW pairs panicles pedicels peduncles petals petioles Pima Bajo pine-oak woodland pinnae plants Pods pollen racemes regions Río Mayo seeds sepals sessile shrubs Sierra Sinaloa slender slopes small trees sometimes Sonoran Desert Sonoran desertscrub southeastern Sonora southern Sonora southward southwestern Chihuahua sparsely species spines stamens stems stipules subsp surfaces TDF THS SDS thick thornscrub tropical deciduous forest trunk twigs usually veins Yaqui Yécora yellow