Plant SystematicsPlant Systematics contains the essential paradigms, concepts, and terms required for a basic understanding of plant systematics at the graduate or undergraduate level. Plant systematics is an area central to numerous other biological disciplines, and a large subset of plant scientists are required to take a course in plant systematics. Almost all ecologists, horticulturalists, plant developmental biologists, and plant pathologists are interested in plant systematics because it is central to their studies of the plants that form such a large part of every ecosystem and experimental system. * The Henry Allan Gleason Award of The New York Botanical Garden, awarded for "Outstanding recent publication in the field of plant taxonomy, plant ecology, or plant geography" (2006) * Contains numerous cladograms that illustrate the evolutionary relationships of major plant groups, with an emphasis on the adaptive significance of major evolutionary novelties *Provides descriptions and classifications of major groups of angiosperms, including over 90 flowering plant families * Includes a comprehensive glossary of plant morphological terms as well as appendices on botanical illustration and plant description |
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Contents
| 49 | |
SYSTEMATIC EVIDENCE AND DESCRIPTIVE TERMINOLOGY | 345 |
RESOURCES IN PLANT SYSTEMATICS | 493 |
APPENDIX 1 PLANT DESCRIPTION | 535 |
APPENDIX 2 BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATIONS | 541 |
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actinomorphic anatropous ancestral angiosperms anther apex apical meristem apomorphy axile axis basal base biseriate bisexual bitegmic Botanical bracts calyx capsule carpels cell wall Chapter character chloroplast cladistic cladogram Close-up compound connate consist corolla cyme dehiscence Economic importance includes embryo endosperm epidermal evolution evolutionary female gametophyte Figure floral Flowering Plants fruit type function fusion gametophyte genera genus gynoecium gynoecium is syncarpous herbarium herbs hypanthium inferior ovary inflorescence land plants layer leaf leaves lobes locules longitudinal section male margin mature molecular monocots monophyletic Nectaries orescence outer ovary ovules ower perianth petals phloem photosynthetic phylogenetic phylogeny pinnate pistil placentation pollen grains rarely region root secondary seed sepals sequence shoot shrubs sieve species specimen spiral sporophyte stamens staminodes stem stigma structure style superior ovary systematics taxa taxon tepals termed tissue trees trichomes tube typically unisexual usually vascular plants veins venation whorled xylem zygomorphic
Bibliographic information
| Title | Plant Systematics |
| Author | Michael G. Simpson |
| Publisher | Academic Press, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0080514049, 9780080514048 |
| Length | 608 pages |
| Subjects | › › Nature / General Nature / Plants / Trees Science / Life Sciences / Botany Science / Life Sciences / Ecology Science / Life Sciences / Evolution |
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