Kiril Stoyanov
Galina Naydenova
Christina Yancheva

Atlas Forage leguminous plants in Bulgaria

Summary

The book represents  known forage members of Fabaceae in Bulgaria. Information about 91 species is structured into 2 original determination keys and 4 tables for visual recognition.

The determination keys contain only the forage species, included in the atlas. The first one is compiled for recognition of the species in bloom. The second one is compiled to determine the species by their seeds and legumes.

The book contains 460 detailed photos of the plants, taken by the authors.

Each species is described with morphological, chorological and phenological data, forage properties and photos in different phases. The data about the phenology, distribution, ecology, and forage characteristics are summarized as appendices.

The book provides options to filter the content of the determination keys and tables.
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