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Excerpt from Botany of Socotra IN presenting this account of the Botany of the Island of Socotra to the Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, some explanation is necessary of how it came about that an expedition for the scientific exploration of Socotra was sent from England, and how it happened that I was connected with it.

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Botany of Socotra by Balfour, Isaac Bayley, Publication date Topics Plants Publisher Edinburgh, R. Grant Collection This book is available with additional data at Biodiversity Heritage Library. See also WorldCat (this item) plus-circle Add Review. : of Socotra (Yemen) was carried out by Botany Staff of Tropical Herbarium and Botany of Socotra.

book Museum of University of Florence in collaboratio n with the EPC (Environmental Project Conservation) of Yemen.

Plants tend to dominate both natural and rural landscapes in all but the most rigorous of environments. Socotra: A Natural History of the Islands and Their People Hardcover – Febru Geology, botany, terrestrial as well as marine zoology, history and ethnography, all these topics and more have been Botany of Socotra.

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Get this from a library. Ethnoflora of the Soqotra Archipelago. [Anthony G Miller; Miranda Morris; Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.] -- Manual to the plants of this group of islands off the Horn of Africa. It provides comprehensive information on the traditional uses of all plants found and contains a fully illustrated key to all.

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Nearly all crop, food, and ornamental plants are angiosperms. There are two major groups of flowering plants, primarily distinguished by the number of seed leaves (cotyledons). Get a book about languages for Soqotri, a book on botany (and maybe somebody from WP:PLANTS) for the plants, and so on.

As for Soqotri, yes, it is "related to modern Arabian languages but also to the most ancient languages of the Near East," if you want to put it that way. The book’s centrepiece is an Encyclopaedia that covers all plant families, genera and species recorded to date from the Socotra archipelago.

The entries systematically describe taxonomy, ecology, conservation status (of endemics), distribution and ethnobotany. Socotra: A Natural History of the Islands and their People provides a comprehensive review of the islands' flora, fauna and people. While documenting the geological history, land and marine biodiversity, ecology, human culture and history, the book also highlights hitherto unexplored aspects of the islands' biogeography, ecology and evolution.

Then a succession of lectures about lithophytic (rock dwelling) Tillandsias, about a million Sanseverias from all over, a few snippets about DNA work in Mammelaria genus and finally a talk about plants of the island of Socotra in Yemen. Botany sure makes you work on your geography, I had to look up this botanically famous, but to me unknown.

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".Homhil Protected Area holds some of the most magnificent botany and scenery on Socotra Island. Here, there are thick growths of frankincense and bottle trees. Cucumber trees are abundant as well.5/5(5).This is the first volume in a six-part series which charts the flora of the Arabian Peninsula and the Socotran archipelago.

It covers all native flowering plants and ferns as well as major cultivated and amenity plants of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the Sultanate of Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait.

The first part of this volume gives an introduction to topology and geology.