Mabberley's Plant‐Book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classifications and Uses (3rd edition)

This book aims to be a comprehensive list of all plants, with a description of the different species as well as details of what they are used for. This is a very specialised book as it assumes knowledge of the hierarchy of species, family, genera, orders and classes. It also only gives a very brief outline of the morphology and topology of leaf shapes, leaf arrangements, flower shapes, flower arrangement, petal shapes and petal arrangements.

The main section of the book is an alphabetical listing of different plant genera and families. It gives details of who first described them in...