Australia is particularly rich in its cycad flora, with four different cycad genera and a great range in form and habitat in the 69 endemic species. Cycads of Australia highlights this diversity with more than 170 color photographs, botanical illustrations and distribution maps. Extensive information on morphology and anatomy, reproduction and dispersal, economic botany, toxicity, conservation and cultivation is included. Researched and written by two of Australia's leading cycad experts, Cycads of Australia is an easy-to-read definitive and up-to-date guide to the amazing world of cycads. BookCycaAust$75.00 About the Authors, Ken Hill and Roy Osborne Ken Hill is a senior research scientist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, and has been studying the cycads of Australia and Asia for 15 years. He has published numerous scientific papers on cycads and other plants, conducted many field study expeditions in Australia and eastern Asia, and has recognised and named more than 50 new species of cycads. Roy Osborne has been studying, and growing, cycads in Africa and Australia for more than 20 years. Now living in Brisbane, Queensland, he has published more than 100 scientific papers and has participated in major international conferences on cycad biology.