Publisher's Synopsis
The Flora of Australia Series covers land and water plants, native species, introduced weeds, flowering plants, pines, ferns, mosses, liverworts and lichens from the mainland of Australia and its off-shore territories, the sub-Antarctic islands of Heard and Macquarie, and the tropical and subtropical islands of Cocos (Keeling), Christmas, Norfolk and Lord Howe. This volume provides descriptions of some of the more robust and luxuriant lichens of cool-temperate south-eastern Australia (Lobariaceae and Sphaerophoraceae), as well as ecologically important soil-inhabiting groups in semi-arid and arid regions (Peltulaceae, Endocarpon and Placidium). Complete or partial accounts of 7 orders are provided, including 9 families, 24 genera and 256 species and infra-specific taxa.
