Plants and vegetation of NW Ethiopia : : a new look at Rodolfo E.G. Pichi Sermolli's results from the Missione di Studio al Lago Tana, 1937 /

Plants and vegetation of NW Ethiopia : : a new look at Rodolfo E.G. Pichi Sermolli's results from the Missione di Studio al Lago Tana, 1937 / / Ib Friis [and three others].

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Pichi Sermolli's work with his more than 2750 collections of plants from nearly 150 localities on the Lake Tana expedition in Ethiopia in 1937 was interrupted by World War II, but completed in 1947 at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the British Museum (Natural History), UK. It resulted in p...

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Friis, Ib,
Place / Publishing House:Firenze University Press : : Firenze, Italy,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Studi e saggi
Physical Description:1 online resource (350 pages) :; illustrations, maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Prof. Shibru Tedla, Addis Ababa
  • Foreword by FT herbarium, Università degli Studi di Firenze
  • Introduction
  • Materials and Methods
  • Fieldwork
  • CHAPTER 1 Background: The Royal Academy of Italy and the Mission to the Study of Lake Tana in 1937
  • CHAPTER 2 Pichi Sermolli: career before, during and after the mission to Lake Tana
  • CHAPTER 3 Pichi Sermolli's field observations of Ethiopian vegetation
  • CHAPTER 4 Results: collections, new species, infraspecific taxa, combinations, replacement names and their type material
  • CHAPTER 5 Chronological list of collecting localities with update of identification of species collected
  • CHAPTER 6 Updated numerical lst of Pichi Sermolli's Ethiopian collections from 1937
  • CHAPTER 7 Later studies of localities around Lake Tana and in the Semien Mountains
  • CHAPTER 8 Pichi Sermolli's observations of vegetation compared with models of the vegetation
  • CHAPTER 9 Conclusions
  • References.

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