What are Floras? - Hugh Wilson
"Within my profession, botanists write floras - exhaustive treatments of all the plants of a specified segment of the plant kingdom within a specified region. Usually far more than just an inventory of plants and a means of identifying them, a flora is a basic reference work about the world around us, an authoritative text on which many popular books are based, a major tool in conservation, horticulture, agriculture, land use and education, and a powerful stimulus for further research."
New Zealand botanist Hugh Wilson, in a book review in the Christchurch Press, Weekend section, Sat, 29 June 1996, p12.
Manaaki Whenua Press has a special page devoted to the Floras of New Zealand. Many of Hugh Wilson's books are also available from Manaaki Whenua Press.