Language: Chinese with English summary
ISBN/ISSN: 753571255x
Published on: 1993-01
Paperback
The middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River is located in eastern China which is across Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui and Jiangsu Provinces and Shanghai City.
In this book, there are 362 important wild economical species of plants growing in water body, swamp and marshland in the middle nad lower reaches of Yangtze river to be recorded according to Engler systent. Those Plants are belong to 218 genus and to 72 families. Each one is described in an order of Chinese name, Latin name, morphology, flowering and fruiting season, growing environment, geographical distribution, economical use, methods of collecting and treatment and main contained chemical substances. There are also 354 pictures for lively description. For making the book to read more conveniently, an interpretation of terms most in use in taxology of economical plants, classifying table of uses of those plants, index of Chinese and Latin name of plants are provided.