D.Glenny & B.Malcolm
CD ROM
Australian Biological Resources Study/Centre for Biological Information Technology (CBIT), 2005
ISBN 0 642 56840 5
The first comprehensive, interactive key to the 181 genera of liverworts and hornworts known from Australia and New Zealand.
The latest web-integrated Lucid™ Player provides an easy-to-use interface, with comprehensive fact-sheets, including a list of diagnostic characters for each genus and numerous photographs of macroscopic and microscopic features.
Features
- An interactive key to the genera of liverworts and hornworts in Australia and New Zealand
- Diagnostic characters of each genus
- Genus descriptions along with details of habitat and distribution
- Checklists of species in Australia and New Zealand
- Literature references for each genus
- In most cases, enables the identification of sterile specimens
- More than 1000 photographs and drawings
- 90 characters to aid accurate identification
- A comprehensive glossary of technical terms accessible by hyperlinks
- An introduction that provides an overview of liverwort and hornwort biology, evolution, taxonomy and biogeography in the Australasian region
- Advice on how to collect and examine specimens
Available from CBIT at
http://www.cbit.uq.edu.au/software/liverworts/