Floral Diagrams: An Aid to Understanding Flower Morphology and Evolution

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Cambridge University Press, 7. 4. 2022
Floral morphology is key for understanding floral evolution and plant identification. Floral diagrams are two-dimensional representations of flowers that replace extensive descriptions or elaborate drawings to convey information in a clear and unbiased way. Following the same outline as the first edition, this comprehensive guide includes updated and relevant literature, represents the latest phylogeny, and features 28 new diagrams. Diagrams are presented in the context of the most recent classifications, covering a variety of families and illustrating the floral diversity of major groups of plants. A strong didactic tool for observing and understanding floral structures, these diagrams are the obvious counterpart to any genetic study in flowering plants and to the discussion of major adaptations and evolutionary trends of flowers. This book is invaluable for researchers and students working on plant structure, development and systematics, as well as being an important resource for plant ecologists, evolutionary botanists and horticulturists.
 

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Introduction to Flower Morphology
3
The Significance of Floral Diagrams
44
Floral Diagrams Used in This Book
61
Systematic Significance of Floral Diagrams
67
The Ascent of Flowers
74
Variation on a Trimerous Bauplan
102
A Transition between
148
The Event of Pentamerous Flowers
172
The Diplostemonous Alliance
184
How to Reinvent Lost Petals
301
Tubes and Pseudanthia
341
Distinctive Systematic Characters and Apomorphic
415
Outlook
432
References
446
Index
498
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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.

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