Le Var et sa flore, plantes rares ou protégées

Le Var et sa flore, plantes rares ou protégées – Collection : Conservatoires botaniques nationaux alpin et méditerranéen (vol. 2)

In 1908, exactly one hundred years ago, the Catalog of vascular plants of the Var by Abel Albert and Émile Jahandiez appeared. Since that date, many updates have been published, but no summary had been made in the department. It is to remedy this that the Association for the Inventory of the Flora of the Var was created in 1996; for twelve years, this association has patiently gathered materials for such a synthesis, in collaboration with the National Mediterranean Botanical Conservatory of Porquerolles, the Society of Natural Sciences and Archeology of Toulon and Var, the University of Provence, the Office National Forest and many amateur botanists.

This book is the first result of this work.

After an overview of the department, including an important phytogeographic synthesis and a history of botany in the department, 328 rare or protected species are treated by about twenty editors, with a page devoted to each entry. Each entry includes a description, photographs, distribution map, ecology, chorology and notes on changes that have occurred over the last hundred years.

Several chapters (on marine plants, mountain plants, wetlands, crops and the coast), illustrate the plants in their habitat, including not only the species already treated in detail, but also many others.

In addition, there is also a list of the seventy-two protected plants previously reported in the Var, but not reviewed since 1980, and an important bibliography on all the flora of the department

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