Flora Iranica: Moraceae chapter

It took a couple months to get here but was well worth the wait. I’ll post some excerpts.

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Flora Iranica was compiled by Austrian botanist K.H. Rechinger from 1963 until his death in 1998, then completed by committee in 2005. It contains 181 fascicles (~chapters), each devoted to a plant family. Individual chapters are available from NHBS.

Structurally, the work is an annotated bibliography. Entries are in Latin. Annotations are in Latin, English, or German – depending on entry. Most fascicles contain plant images and/or illustrations.

The fascicle I’m presenting here is for Moraceae. The primary author is the renown Polish botanist K. Browicz. There are 15 pages of text plus 8 figures. Here is the first page: