N.N. Tzvelev – författare

The Alphabetical Indexes are cumulative indices to all 30 volumes of the Flora of the USSR and together constitute the thirty-first and final volume of this monumental work. This volume consists mainly of separate indices to the scientific (Latin) names of the families, and the genera and species in the Flora, but it also includes a list or index of the authors of the Latin names, alphabetized by the standard abbreviations used for them in the text, and summaries of other commonly used abbreviations. Two maps are appended, with keys to them added by the Translator and General Editor. The Latin-name indices have been reproduced page for page from the original Russian edition. The original Russian volume also included cumulative indexes to the Russian vernacular names, but these indexes have been omitted from the English translations of volume I-XXX.

This series of books is a translation of Flora Evropeiskoi Chasti SSR, which provides information on the wild and most important cultivated plants growing in the European portion of Russia and its bordering regions. The text describes plant systematics, habitat conditions, range, and chromosome numbers. The series serves as a manual for botanists, agronomists, teachers, students and naturalists. Volume 9 covers 45 families of higher plants with 162 genera and 860 species. This volume emphasizes the important cultivated species, including wild and introduced plants, and families Chenopodiceae and Polygonaceae.

The tenth volume of Flora Vostochnoi Evropy [Flora of Eastern Europe] is a direct continuation of Flora Evropeiskoi Chasti SSSR [Flora of Russia: The European Part and Bordering Regions] and includes 19 families of Class Dicotyledones (Magnoliophyta) of which the important ones are Ranunculaceae and Rosaceae; families with great economic importance. The smaller families, to some extent, adjoining these two families, are Papaveraceae, Crassulaceae, and Saxifragaceae. This volume includes 1100 species belonging to 136 genera. As in previous volumes, the list of families included in this and earlier volumes is given (the volume and date of its publication is mentioned alongside). Also included is the map of floristic regions with explanatory text.