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Systematics of Himalayan Seed Plants

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Progress in Botany

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Many national and international projects to prepare floristic treatments for Asian countries are in progress throughout the world. Amongst these are a number of projects focusing on the Himalayan region. The Flora of Bhutan, of which the first part was published in 1983, was completed when volume 3, part 2, dealing with the Orchidaceae, was published in 2002. The completion of the Flora of Bhutan marked the start of a new epoch in floristic research on the Himalayan region following the last major work for the area, Hooker’s The Flora of British India (1872–1897). This major achievement was brought about by the late Andrew J. C. Grierson and his successor, David G. Long, of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and other botanists. In Sikkim, now a part of India, a flora project was begun by the Botanical Survey of India after the establishment of the Sikkim Himalayan Circle of the Botanical Survey of India at Gangtok in 1979. In 1996, the first volume of that flora was published. For the western Himalaya, Karakorum and Kashmir have been treated as a part of the Flora of Pakistan compiled first by E. Nasir and S.I. Ali, and later by S.I. Ali and M. Qaiser since 1970.

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  1. Department of Botany, National Science Museum, Amakubo 4-1-1, Tsukuba, 305-0005, Japan

    Shinobu Akiyama

  2. Department of Botany, University Museum, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    Hideaki Ohba

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    U. Lüttge

  3. Bielefeld, Germany

    W. Beyschlag

  4. Tokyo, Japan

    J. Murata

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Akiyama, S., Ohba, H. (2004). Systematics of Himalayan Seed Plants. In: Esser, K., Lüttge, U., Beyschlag, W., Murata, J. (eds) Progress in Botany. Progress in Botany, vol 65. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18819-0_16

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