Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Octavo, publisher's cloth, colour illustrations, maps. Remainder mark. WAS $113. This is the first field guide dedicated to the diverse tree species of Panama and Costa Rica. Featuring close to 500 tropical tree species, this guide includes superb color photographs, abundant colour distribution maps, and... More about Trees of Panama and Costa Rica

Sydney: Surrey Beatty, (1998. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, text illustrations, keys. This book is an introduction to a study of Sydney sandstone flora. The text is supported by many explanatory illustrations and references to familiar and not-so-familiar plants. More about Sydney flora: a beginner's guide to Australian native plants

Berkeley: University of California, 2003. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, colour maps, text illustrations. WAS $106. Seagrasses, a group of about sixty species of underwater marine flowering plants, grow in the shallow marine and estuary environments of all the world's continents except Antarctica. This is the first authoritative and comprehensive global... More about World atlas of seagrasses

Melbourne: Inkata Press, 1992. Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white illustrations. WAS $44. A concise authoritative book about the background and procedures involved in this important method of weed control. It provides guidance on all aspects of a biological control project including the selection of the target weed; finding... More about Biological control of weeds: a handbook for practitioners and students

Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, (2007. second edition). Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. WAS $195. An up to date checklist of one of the richest orchid floras, with one of the highest number of endemics in the world, with annotated diagnostic notes. A new edition of a now classic work... More about Orchids of Madagascar

Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 1995. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, black and white illustrations, maps. WAS $19. In Australia only 0.5% of the original area of lowland grasslands remains in even semi-natural condition. More about Australia's most threatened ecosystems: the southeastern lowland native grasslands

Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white text illustrations. WAS $125. This book offers a definitive manual for the identification of the seaweeds that inhabit the deep offshore waters as well as the near shoreline and shallow water sounds from North Carolina to northern Florida. It provides... More about Seaweeds of the Southeastern United States: Cape Matteras to Cape Canaveral

Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty, 2003. Octavo, paperback, illustrations, maps. WAS $40. Joan Webb has gathered together information on the development of an independent botany in Australia; the lives of the principal players as well as the fate of their collections. Illustrated with portraits and maps, her story starts with William... More about The botanical endeavour: journey towards a flora of Australia