Mistletoes of Western Australia

Tony Start,Kevin Thiele

• Editorial: CSIRO PUBLISHING
• Año: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781486316168
• Categoría: Ciencias biológicas
• Categoría: Botánica

Mistletoes are fascinating, diverse, colourful and ecologically important plants, found in most parts of Western Australia.

Mistletoes of Western Australia is a guide to their identification, ecology, conservation, biogeography and evolution, including how they cope with fire. The book explores the relevance of mistletoes to the biodiversity of the communities in which they live, and provides information on their hosts and simple identification keys to species. Each species is described in simple terms and illustrated with a photo of the species and a map of its known distribution in Western Australia.

Featuring seven genera and 42 species, this comprehensive illustrated guide will be essential for botanists, conservationists and anyone interested in Australian flora.

Índice

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Parasitic plants: an overview
• 3. Reproduction
• 4. Do mistletoes have roots?
• 5. Host variety
• 6. Do mistletoes mimic their hosts?
• 7. Fire and other threats
• 8. Biogeography of Western Australia’s mistletoes
• 9. The relevance of mistletoes
• 10. Keys to mistletoe families, genera and species in Western Australia
• 11. Species accounts
• Checklist and broad distribution records of Western Australian mistletoes
• Glossary
• References and further reading
• Index