The new edition of this successful book includes up-to-date phylogeny, more plant families, and simplified and consistent diagram labelling. There are 28 new floral diagrams enriching the book and making it an invaluable resource for students, researchers and artists interested in plant science, botany and horticulture.
The new edition of this successful book includes up-to-date phylogeny, more plant families, and simplified and consistent diagram labelling. There are 28 new floral diagrams enriching the book and making it an invaluable resource for students, researchers and artists interested in plant science, botany and horticulture.
Louis P. Ronse De Craene is a botanist at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and the Director of the MSc course in the Biodiversity and Taxonomy of Plants jointly organised with the University of Edinburgh. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed papers and edited four books, and his main research interests are centred on floral morphology, the evolution of flowers and the use of floral characters in plant phylogeny. He has developed an internationally acclaimed expertise in floral structural morphology encompassing a broad range of angiosperm families.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Acknowledgements Part I. Introduction to Floral Diagrams: 1. Introduction to flower morphology 2. The significance of floral diagrams 3. Floral diagrams used in this book Part II. Floral Diagrams in the Major Clades: 4. Systematic significance of floral diagrams 5. Basal Angiosperms: the ascent of flowers 6. Monocots: variation on a trimerous Bauplan 7. Early diverging eudicots: a transition between two flower types 8. Basal Pentapetalae: the event of pentamerous flowers 9. Rosids: the diplostemonous alliance 10. Caryophyllids: how to reinvent lost petals 11. Asterids: tubes and pseudanthia Part III. Conclusions: 12. Distinctive systematic characters and apomorphic tendencies 13. Floral diagrams and major Angiosperm groups 14. Outlook References Glossary.
Preface Acknowledgements Part I. Introduction to Floral Diagrams: 1. Introduction to flower morphology 2. The significance of floral diagrams 3. Floral diagrams used in this book Part II. Floral Diagrams in the Major Clades: 4. Systematic significance of floral diagrams 5. Basal Angiosperms: the ascent of flowers 6. Monocots: variation on a trimerous Bauplan 7. Early diverging eudicots: a transition between two flower types 8. Basal Pentapetalae: the event of pentamerous flowers 9. Rosids: the diplostemonous alliance 10. Caryophyllids: how to reinvent lost petals 11. Asterids: tubes and pseudanthia Part III. Conclusions: 12. Distinctive systematic characters and apomorphic tendencies 13. Floral diagrams and major Angiosperm groups 14. Outlook References Glossary.
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