FIELD GUIDE TO THE PLANTS OF NORTHERN BOTSWANA: INCLUDING THE OKAVANGO DELTA. By Alison and Roger Heath. Edited by David Goyder.

2005 1st edition. Large 8vo (172 x 247mm). Ppvi,593. Colour photographs throughout, location maps, bibliography. Pictorial paper-covered boards, issued without a dust-wrapper.

"Useful in countries and geographical areas adjacent to northern Botswana in the Zambesi basin". "This authoritative work, based on a systematic botanical survey, is designed for use in the field. Accessible and concise text, together with more than 2,400 specially produced photographs of plants in the bush, describe the key features of some 530 flowering herbs, trees, shrubs, ferns, grasses and sedges. Traditional uses and beliefs concerning each species are contributed by local people". Chapters include: How to use this book; Area covered and habitat overview. Plants of Northern Botswana and the Okavango Delta: Blue or blue-purple flowers; Green or greenish flowers; Orange, brown or red-brown flowers; Pink, red or red-purple flowers; Yellow or cream flowers; Yellow or cream flowers; White or whitish flowers. Grasses: Introduction to the grasses: Simple spike; Spike of spikes; Digitate spike; False raceme; Plumose panicle; Open panicle; Subcontracted panicle; Contracted panicle; Spike-like panicle. Sedges and sedge-like plants: Introduction to sedges and sedge-like plants: Capitate; Umbel-like clusters; Umbel-like with single spikelets; Unbranched pseudolateral; Branche pseudolateral; Panicle; Terminal elongate. Ferns and aquatic plants with no visible flowers.