Peter K. Endress, Endress Peter K.

Diversity and Evolutionary Biology of Tropical Flowers

Herausgeber: Ashton, Peter S.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume concentrates on tropical flowers in which, whilst sharing many of the features seen in temperate flowers, exhibit phenomena which are purely tropical. First it deals with general structural and biological features of flowers and shows facets of their diversity. Next, it focuses on the flowers of selected tropical plants and emphasizes their structural and biological idiosyncrasies and evolutionary features.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 848g
• ISBN-13: 9780521565103
• ISBN-10: 0521565103
• Artikelnr.: 22025738

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Floral organisation (bauplan, groundplan)
3. Floral construction (architecture, gestalt)
4. Floral adaptations to different pollinators (floral styles)
5. Special differentiations associated with pollinator attraction
6. Special differentiations associated with the breeding system
7. The process of anthesis
8. Floral structure: biology of selected systematic groups in the tropics
9. Aspects of flower evolution
10. Prospects
Index.