Floral diagrams : an aid to understanding flower morphology and evolution
Print Book, English, 2010
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2010
Evolución
xv, 441 p. : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780521729451, 9780521493468, 0521729459, 0521493463
1044767672
pt. I. Introduction to floral diagrams
1. Introduction to flower morphology
2. Floral diagrams
3. Floral diagrams used in this book
pt. 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 worlds
8. Basal core eudicots: the event of pentamerous flowers
9. Caryophyllids: how to reinvent lost petals
10. Rosids: the diplostemonous alliance
11. Asterids: tubes and pseudanthia
pt. III. Conclusions
12. Distinctive systematic characters and cryptic apomorphies
13. Floral diagrams and major angiosperm groups
14. Outlook