Flora of New Zealand: Volume V - Grasses

Volume V completes the Flora of New Zealand series started in 1961 by Dr. H.H. Allan's Volume I on Indigenous Tracheophyta. Grasses are among the most significant economic plants in the world, the cereals - wheat, oats, barley, rice and maize - and the pasture grasses - ryegrass, cocksfoot, timothy, fescues and blue-grasses. Grasses are weeds too - twitch, Johnson grass, barley grass and nassella tussock. Grasses are often very beautiful. This book is an identification manual intended for all who are involved with grasses. There are keys and descriptions, distribution and ecological data. To complement these there are 24 black and white plates of grass flowers, 10 colour plates of habitats, and two colour plates with 16 paintings of the florets of native species of Rytidosperma.

Reprint 2000, very good condition.