Henk J. Beentje
Autore di The Kew Plant Glossary: An Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Terms - Second Edition
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Henk Beentje is a botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and has worked extensively on the flora of Africa and Madagascar. He was editor of the Flora of Tropical East Africa and he has written several fieldguides, Kenya trees, shrubs and linanas, and co-authored The Palms of Madagascar.
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- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Netherlands
- Luogo di nascita
- Bakkum, North Holland, Netherlands
- Istruzione
- University of Amsterdam
Wageningen Agricultural University - Attività lavorative
- botanist
- Organizzazioni
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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The Kew Plant glossary : an illustrated dictionary… di Henk Beentje
Possibly one of the most useful glossaries I have seen in a long time, with good, clear and greatly useful definitions, drawing a distinction between rare or outdated terms and those in actual use, as well as specifying which group they are used for (something that cannot be said of Stearn's Botanical Latin or Harris & Harris' Plant Identification Terminology). It would still gain from a better "perspective" approach to various aspects of terminological confusion regarding, for example, the terminology applied to leaf apices.… (altro)
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