Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants
Subtitle: Asclepiadaceae (Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants)
Contributors: Focke Albers (Editor); Ulrich Meve (Editor)
Edition: 1st ed. 2002. Corr. 2nd printing edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9783540419648
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Taxonomy & systematics; Nature; Flowering Plants (Angiospermae); Taxonomic Botany; Science; Science/Mathematics; Plants - General; Flowers; Life Sciences - Botany; Brachystelma; Ceropegia; Hoya; Science / Botany; Stem-Succulent; Succulent Plants; Succulents; Taxonomy; Classification; Asclepiadaceae
First sentence: Shrubs, woody or herbaceous left-twining climbers, perennials with deciduous herbaceous above-ground parts or stem succulents, with watery or milky sap; L decussate, rarely whorled, simple and entire (rarely lobed or divided), sometimes much-reduced, absent or spinescent (in stem succulents);