Marine Plants of Australia
To most people, the mention of marine plants conjures up images of rotting seaweed piled high on the beach, or slithering threateningly around bare ankles during a paddle in the shallows. Certainly marine plants do not inspire the imagination or the romanticism that is usually associated with the sea. Marine Plants of Australia might well alter that perception. It illustrates over 300 species of Australia's underwater plant life, mostly using underwater photographs that reveal the amazing...
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AcknowledgmentsviiPrefaceixIntroduction1How to Use This Book3Arrangement and Use of the 'Systematic Section'3What's in a Name?5History of Marine Botany in Australia7Recent Studies9Uses of Marine Plants13Food13Extracts14Fertilizers14Aquarium Use15Collecting and Displaying16Collecting16Preservation16Pressing16Labelling18Synopsis of Divisions, Classes, Orders, Families and Genera19Systematic Section23Division Rhodophyta 'The Red Algae'25Division Heterokontophyta: Class Phaeophyceae 'The Brown Algae'183Division Chlorophyta 'The Green Algae'229Division Cyanophyta 'The Blue-green Algae'273Division Magnoliophyta 'The Seagrasses'277AppendixDescriptions of New Species285Glossary289Bibliography295Taxonomic Index297
\ BooknewsThis unusual field guide provides the amateur naturalist with superb color photos (all of living plants, taken by the author) and field identification for a substantial (over 300 species) cross-section of the over 3000 types of marine plants known for Australia. Huisman (a specialist in marine algae, he's a research fellow at Murdoch U. in Australia) provides genus, Latin and common names, a short descriptive paragraph, locality and distribution, and further reading (when available) for each plant, but it's the photos for each that will inspire the reader to search for the members of this underwater garden. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
