A guide to plants of inland Australia by Philip Moore ISBN 187633486 X, published in 2005 by Reed New Holland, full colour, soft cover, 503 pages Price $49.95 plus $A10 postage within Australia, overseas postage please request a quote

An ideal companion for inland travellers who are curious about the plants they encounter. This very useful reference for the amateur and professional botanist features over 900 inland plants. Each entry has a detailed description of the plant, at least one colour photograph and a distribution map.

Table of contents

Part 1 - Inland Australia: Evolution, humans and vegetation

• Chapter 1: Forests to deserts: the evolution of inland Australia
• Chapter 2: The inland flora
• Chapter 3: Some inland plant communities
• Chapter 4: Poisonous plants
• Chapter 5: A land prone to fire
• Chapter 7: Land management by fire
• Chapter 8: Aborigines and plants

Part 2 - Major and distinctive plant groups

• Boab
• Cassias
• Casuarinas
• Chenopods
• Cycads
• Cypress pines
• Daisies
• Emubushes and poverty bushes
• Eucalytps,
• Figs
• Goodenia family
• Grasses
• Grevillias and hakeas
• Kurrajongs and bottle trees
• Melaleucas
• Mistletoes
• Mulla mullas, foxtails and pussytails
• Palms
• Peas
• Potato and tomato bushes
• Wattles

Part 3 - Less familair plants

• Apendicies
• Glossary
• References
• Indicies