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CD-ROM
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Indochinese Peninsula presents in this work an
outline of the main Vegetation-types and a selection
of plants with flowers or fruits that can be seen
in one or another country of the Indochinese Peninsula,
(Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam)
Condensed descriptions and colour illustrations allow
the nature lovers and travellers to better understand
the plants environment. In the general index and in
the chapter Vernacular Names can be seen, with the
scientific names of plants, vernacular names in various
languages, Khmer, Lao, Thai, Vietnamese, English,
French, what is able to arouse more interest in the
knowledge of the local flora as well indigenous as
exotic.
So this book should be of interest to all people which
need to be better informed about the Indochinese plants
or which are only eager to be instructed of a plants
environment that is perhaps not well or not at all
known by them. |
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The Author
| After graduation in natural sciences
Dr J.E. Vidal was teacher in Vietnam and Laos between
1940 and 1954. During that time he was particularly interested
in the flora, vegetation, vernacular names and uses of
plants. Appointed as botanist by National Center of Scientific
Research in France he worked first at Prof. Gaussen's
laboratory in Toulouse University and wrote there a Ph
D thesis on Ecology and Vegetation of Laos (1958). After
that he continued the botanical research at the Phanerogams
Laboratory of the Paris Museum. He contributed there to
the revision of several plant families published in the
series Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam and Flora
of Thailand. Since 1965 he is a member of Editorial Board
of the latter Flora and since 1970 he is the main editor
of the Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam. The publications
of Dr. Vidal (over 100 items) concern the fields of Ecology,
Vegetation, Taxonomy and Ethnobotany of S.E. Asia. The
botanical specimens collected by him through Laos, Thailand,
Cambodia and Vietnam reach up to about 7000. For lack
of a successor botanist able to replace him after his
administrative retirement (1979) he has continued until
now to carry on the various tasks related to the edition
of the Flore du C.L.V. and to various fields of botanical
research related to Indochinese Peninsula. |
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