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Author: N. B. Аlexeeva

Iridarium of the Botanical Garden of V.L.Komarov’s Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (Collection of plants of the family Iridaceae) / N. B. Аlexeeva; Russian Academy of Sciences, V.L.Komarov’s Botanical Institute. – St. Petersburg: “Anatolia”, 2009. – 144 p., ill.

Devoted to the 300th anniversary of the Botanical garden of V.L.Komarov’s Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Editor-in-chief: Yu. S. Smirnov, PhD in Biological Sciences

Reviewers:
V.I.Dorofeev, DrSc of Biological Sciences
A.D.Mikheev, DrSc of Biological Sciences

Approved for publication by the academic council of V.L.Komarov’s Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.

The book of Nina B. Alexeeva, PhD in Biological Sciences, research fellow, curator of the collection of species and cultivars belonging to the family Iridaceae, provides information on the collection of plants in the Iridarium of the Botanical garden of V.L.Komarov’s Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.

The history of the Iridarium has been covered; principles of scientific stocking of the collection and its annotated list have been given. There is information on rare species and their protection. Agrotechnological methods of breeding species and sorts of irises, crocuses, gladioluses and other representatives of the family Iridaceae have been shown.

The monograph is useful for botanists, introducers-practitioners, amateur gardeners.