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BOOK REVIEWS ISRAEL JOURNAL OF BOTANY, Vol. 40, 1991, pp. 93-96 TUBEROUS, CORMOUS AND BULBOUS PLANTS: BIOLOGY OF ADAPTIVE STRATEGY IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA By John S. Pate and Kingsley W. Dixon University of Western Australia Press, Nedlends, Western Australia, xi + 268 pp. (with 8 plates, 64 figs., and 28 tables), 1982 In spite of being aware that Australia has a strange and diversified plant and animal life. J.S. Pate and K.W. Dixon increased my fascination. and certainly also that of other foreign readers, for the new and peculiar underground plant world of Australia described in their book. The 204 native tuberous, cormous, and bulbous plants of Western Australia belong to all divisions of land plants: four out of eleven pteridophytes (36%); one out of six gymnosperms (16% ); 1.4% of the dicots; and 9.8% of the monocots (p. 139). Altogether, they comprise less than 3% of the total 6819 Western Australian species. Of these 204 species, 705 are true geophytes (namely, their above-ground tops die down before the rest period and their regeneration buds are located underground) and 4% are halophytes (marsh or lake dwelling plants). (Beside the natives, in Western Australia there are 72 naturalized species with fleshy storage http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Israel Journal of Plant Sciences Brill

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0792-9978
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10.1080/0021213X.1991.10677180
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ISRAEL JOURNAL OF BOTANY, Vol. 40, 1991, pp. 93-96 TUBEROUS, CORMOUS AND BULBOUS PLANTS: BIOLOGY OF ADAPTIVE STRATEGY IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA By John S. Pate and Kingsley W. Dixon University of Western Australia Press, Nedlends, Western Australia, xi + 268 pp. (with 8 plates, 64 figs., and 28 tables), 1982 In spite of being aware that Australia has a strange and diversified plant and animal life. J.S. Pate and K.W. Dixon increased my fascination. and certainly also that of other foreign readers, for the new and peculiar underground plant world of Australia described in their book. The 204 native tuberous, cormous, and bulbous plants of Western Australia belong to all divisions of land plants: four out of eleven pteridophytes (36%); one out of six gymnosperms (16% ); 1.4% of the dicots; and 9.8% of the monocots (p. 139). Altogether, they comprise less than 3% of the total 6819 Western Australian species. Of these 204 species, 705 are true geophytes (namely, their above-ground tops die down before the rest period and their regeneration buds are located underground) and 4% are halophytes (marsh or lake dwelling plants). (Beside the natives, in Western Australia there are 72 naturalized species with fleshy storage

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Israel Journal of Plant Sciences – Brill

Published: May 13, 1991

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