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Fagales contains full checklists of important, mainly temperate genera such as Alnus (alders), Betula (birches), Corylaceae (hornbeams), Corylus(hazels), Castanea (chestnuts), Fagus (northern beeches), Nothofagus (southern beeches), and Quercus (oaks), describing 531 species, their growth patterns, distribution and conservation status.

World Checklist and Bibliography of Araliaceae fills a long-standing need for complete summaries, including Schefflera, Aralia, Dendropanax, Oreopanax, Polyscias and Hedera (the ivies) of all 1412 species that constitute this plant family.

In all, Araceae contains 106 genera and 2,823 species, with a range that extends through the wet and dry tropics and north and south into temperate lands. While many genera - Anthurium, Caladium, Dieffenbachia, Monstera and Philodendron - are well documented, this extensively illustrated book represents the first full account of the entire family to appear for nearly 100 years.