Australia's Poisonous Plants, Fungi and Cyanobacteria: A Guide to Species of Medical and Veterinary Importance

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
About the author
Contents
Preface: why this book?
Acknowledgements
Warnings
Using this book
1 Understanding plants and plant poisoning
2 How to confirm tentative identifications
3 Common poisoning profiles
PART 1: Poisonous cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
	4 Poisonous cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
PART 2: Poisonous fungi
	5 Poisonous fungi
PART 3: Poisonous vascular plants
	6 Poisonous ferns
	7 Poisonous cycads
	8 Poisonous grasses, sedges and mat-rushes
	9 Poisonous grass-trees
	10 Poisonous grass-like herbs (iris and lily families)
	11 Poisonous forbs (non-grass-like herbs)
	12 Poisonous vines (climbing plants and creepers)
	13 Poisonous shrubs
	14 Poisonous trees
	15 Digest of poisonous cyanobacteria, algae, slime moulds, macrofungi and plants in Australia
	APPENDIX 1: Aids to identifying flowering plants
	APPENDIX 2: The top killers
	APPENDIX 3: Poisoning hot-spots
	APPENDIX 4: Animals and the major species that poison them
	APPENDIX 5: Body systems affected by the major poisonous species
	APPENDIX 6: Australian states with major poisonous species
	Glossary
	References and further reading
	Index