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Acacias of Australia
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Description | Features | Sample | System Requirements | Readership | Reviews | Related Titles
Description
With the aid of WATTLE, you will be able to identify any species of acacia in Australia. This powerful electronic key enables species to be quickly and accurately named, irrespective of whether specimens are in flower or fruit. WATTLE is also a comprehensive information package, with descriptions and illustrations of the nearly 1200 species, subspecies and variants of acacia in Australia.
WATTLE’s browser interface enables quick access to the rich stores of information or to the identification component, the latest Web-integrated Lucid Player. Every species has a botanical description, a distribution map and diagnostic drawings, one of which is annotated to highlight the most critical features of the plant. Supplementary drawings are derived from well-known sources such as Mueller’s Iconography of Australian Acacias, Simmons’ Acacias of Australia, and Whibley & Symon’s Acacias of South Australia.
For problems with the Lucid Player, or for more information on the Lucid Player, please contact Lucidcentral.com.
- Interactive identification of all recognised Australian acacias.
- Description, illustration and map for every recognised Australian acacia species.
- Easy identification even without flowers or fruit: choose from 100 illustrated features of the plant.
- More than 1000 specimen illustrations.
- Developed cooperatively by Australia’s leading botanical institutions.
Sample
View a sample of Wattle.
Reviews
“WATTLE is an exceptional package. After using (it) for this short time, I have learnt more about Acacias than I have learnt in my entire life.”
John Connors, Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian National Herbarium
“My feeling in using the package is one of considerable enjoyment. I feel confident using it . . . a very high quality interactive key.”
Andrew Slee, Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian National Herbarium
“Is it any good? Yes it is! … The program is fairly intuitive, so it is tempting to just have a go, but then you don’t know about such tricks as “Bingo” on the slide show. … If we only had similar programs for the rest of the flora!”
Jim Barrow (Australian Plant online no.24 December 2001)
“The authors have gone to great lengths to make the CD useable to as many people as possible and I found it easy to learn about the terms I didn’t know.”
Kevin Sparrow (Growing Australian December 2001)
“Australians and others who must identify these wily wattles will certainly find the CD-ROM invaluable, providing they take the time and make the effort to understand properly its uses and ramifications.”
Rudolf Schmid University of California, Berkeley (Taxon 50 November 2001)
“This set of two volumes and a compact disc [Flora of Australia Volumes 11A & 11B: Mimosaceae, Acacia and Wattle: Acacias of Australia] surpasses any of its predecessors in its brilliance. The set is a triumph, skillfully combining the vital aspects of α-taxonomy, economic uses, fossil history and palynology and interactive keys on compact disc.”
TJ Edwards, Curator, Natal University Herbarium, South Africa (South African Journal of Botany v.68 2002)
“… a grand accomplishment and advance the study of Australian wattles immensely.”
Paul Forster (Plant Systematics and Evolution v.233 no.3/4 2002
Readership
Anyone with an interest in Australian acacias – including botanists, ecologists, foresters and horticulturists – will find this interactive identification package an invaluable tool.
- Windows 95/NT/98/2000/XP/VISTA
- 16 Mb of RAM (32 Mb for NT/2000)
- 35 Mb of hard-disk space if Internet Explorer 5.0 already installed, or 50 Mb of hard-disk space with the Mozilla browser
- SVGA monitor
- CD-ROM drive
- Internet connection (optional)
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