P. Barry Tomlinson is Professor Emeritus of Botany at Harvard University, Massachusetts; Crum Professor of Tropical Botany at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawaii; and Research Associate of the Montgomery Botanical Center, Coral Gables, Florida. He is a leading scholar on the botany of tropical plants, and has published widely on plant anatomy and morphology across a diverse range of communities and species, including palms, aborescent monocotyledons, seagrasses, gymnosperms and mangroves.
Part I. General Account: 1. Historical prelude
2. Ecology
3. Floristics
4. Biogeography
5. Shoots and leaf systems
6. Structural biology
7. Root systems
8. Water relations and salt balance
9. Flowering
10. Seedlings and seeds
11. Mangroves and people
Part II. Detailed Description of Families: Acanthaceae
Anacardiaceae
Apocynaceae
Arecaceae (Palmae)
Asteraceae (Compositae)
Avicenniaceae (Acanthaceae)
Bataceae (Batidaceae)
Bignoniaceae
Bombacaceae (Malvaceae: Bombacoideae)
Celastraceae
Clusiaceae (Calophyllaceae)
Combretaceae
Ebenaceae
Euphorbiaceae
Fabaceae (Leguminosae)
Flacourtiaceae
Goodeniaceae
Lecythidaceae
Lythraceae
Malvaceae (Malvoideae)
Melastomataceae
Meliaceae
Myristicaceae
Pellicieraceae
Plumbaginaceae
Primulaceae (Myrsinaceae: Myrsinoideae)
Pteridaceae
Rhizophoraceae
Rubiaceae
Rutaceae
Sapindaceae
Sapotaceae
Sonneratiaceae (Lythraceae)
Sterculiaceae (Malvaceae: Sterculioideae)
Tiliaceae (Malvaceae: Brownlowioideae).
