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Floral diagrams : an aid to understanding flower morphology and evolution /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ronse Decraene, L. P. (Louis Philippe) (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Angiosperms > Morphology > Charts, diagrams, etc.
Flowers > Evolution.
Angiosperms > Morphology.
Flowers > Evolution > Charts, diagrams, etc.
Angiospermes > Morphologie > Tableaux, graphiques, etc.
Fleurs > EÌ?volution.
Angiospermes > Morphologie.
Fleurs > EÌ?volution > Tableaux, graphiques, etc.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I.
  • Introduction to floral diagrams
  • 1.
  • Introduction to flower morphology
  • 2.
  • The significance of 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 flower types
  • 8.
  • Basal core eudicots: the event of pentamerous flowers
  • 9.
  • Rosids: the diplostemonous alliance
  • 10.
  • Caryophyllids: how to reinvent lost petals
  • 11.
  • Asterids: tubes and pseudanthia
  • pt. III.
  • Conclusions
  • 12.
  • Distinctive systematic characters and apomorphic tendencies
  • 13.
  • Floral diagrams and major angiosperm groups
  • 14.
  • Outlook.