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The Families of Flowering Plants of Australia

Families of Flowering Plants of Australia - An Interactive Identification Guide (Revised Edition) 2002 CD ROM cover

Families of Flowering Plants of Australia: An Interactive Identification Guide (Revised Edition)
2002 CD ROM cover

An Interactive Identification Guide

Revised Edition

OUT OF PRINT

Families of Flowering Plants of Australia: An Interactive Identification Guide (Revised Edition) is an identification and information package for all of the plant families, native and naturalised, in Australia. It enables the user to: quickly and easily identify a plant to family level; learn about Australia’s plant families from text descriptions and notes; and view more than 1500 full-colour photographs or drawings of representative species.

The new browser interface enables quick access to the rich stores of information or to the identification key, using the latest web-integrated Lucid Player.

Families of Flowering Plants of Australia - An Interactive Identification Guide (Revised Edition) 2014 USB cover

Families of Flowering Plants of Australia: An Interactive Identification Guide (Revised Edition)
2014 USB cover

Features

  • quick and easy identification of the family to which any plant, whether native or naturalised, from anywhere in Australia or the Australian Island Territories, belongs
  • full or diagnostic descriptions of Australia's plant families, lists of genera and other notes on all families
  • easy hyperlinked navigation between related families
  • an illustrated glossary of terms is provided to assist with use of the guide.

While the Families of Flowering Plants of Australia CD ROM and USB drive are no longer available, much of the same information, with the potential for ongoing updates, is available through:

  • Flora of Australia (previously Flora of Australia Online)
    This digital platform integrates a wide range of botanical information from many sources, such as nomenclature, distribution maps, images, biodiversity data, and identification keys.
  • KeyBase: Flowering plants of Australia
    KeyBase is a database and web application for managing and deploying interactive dichotomous keys to flora and fauna.

About the Key

Electronic series: ABRS Identification Series
Publishers: Australian Biological Resources Study/CSIRO Publishing
Editors: K.R.Thiele, L.G.Adams

About the Revised Edition CD ROM (2002)

Note: In 2014, CD ROMs were replaced by USB drives and supporting technology was updated so it would run on newer operating systems.

The original content has NOT changed.

Year: 2002
ISBN-10: 0 643 06721 3
ISBN-13: 978 0 643 06721 9

System requirements

Operating system: Windows 95/98/2000/NT(SP6)/ME/XP
System memory: 16 mb RAM; 32 mb NT/2000/XP (32 mb RAM or higher is recommended)
Screen Resolution: SVGA monitor (800 × 600 or better)
CD ROM drive: 4× speed or greater
Input device: Mouse
Web browser: 35 mb of hard disk space if Internet Explorer 5.0 already installed; 50 mb of hard disk space with the Mozilla browser; Internet connection (optional)

About the Revised Edition USB drive (2014)

Year: 2014
ISBN-13: 978 1 486 30199 7

System requirements

Java Virtual Machine v1.4.2 or greater
Operating system:
Windows 2000(SP3)/XP/Vista/Win7/Win8 (32 or 64 bit editions of Windows are supported)
Macintosh OS X 10.4 or greater
Linux that supports J2RE, such as Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu
Solaris 7, 8, 9 or 10
Note: Lucid will run under Windows 98/ME/NT4, however these are unsupported platforms
System memory:
Windows 256 mb RAM (512 mb or greater recommended)
Macintosh/Linux/Solaris 512 mb or greater
Screen Resolution: minimum of 1024 x 768 pixels
Web browser: Java-enabled web browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Safari