The Plant Diversity of Malesia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Flora Malesiana — past, present and future

   1. Van Steenis remembered

      • C. Kalkman

      Pages 1-9

   2. The general progress of Flora Malesiana

      • Rob Geesink

      Pages 11-16

3. Progress in Malesian botany — some examples

   1. Outstanding problems in Malesian palms

      • John Dransfield

      Pages 17-25

   2. Progress in the study of Malesian Bambusoideae

      • E. A. Widjaja

      Pages 27-32

   3. New evidence for the reconciliation of floral organisation in Pandanaceae with normal angiosperm patterns

      • Benjamin C. Stone

      Pages 33-55

   4. Progress in Elaeocarpaceae

      • M. J. E. Coode

      Pages 57-61

   5. Correlations in the germination patterns of Santalacean and other mistletoes

      • J. Kuijt

      Pages 63-72

   6. Tabernaemontana (Apocynaceae): discussion of its delimitation

      • A. J. M. Leeuwenberg

      Pages 73-81

   7. Pollinaria of some tropical Asian Asclepiadaceae

      • M. A. Rahman

      Pages 83-92

   8. Alkaloids and cyanogenic glycosides of Malesian plants as taxonomic markers

      • R. Hegnauer

      Pages 93-104

   9. The systematics of the Polypodiaceae

      • E. Hennipman

      Pages 105-120

4. Vegetation and floras

   1. A review of natural vegetation studies in Malesia, with special reference to Indonesia

      • Kuswata Kartawinata

      Pages 121-132

   2. The illusionary concept of the climax

      • R. J. Johns

      Pages 133-146

   3. Diversity and distribution patterns in the flora of Mount Kinabalu

      • John H. Beaman, Reed S. Beaman

      Pages 147-160

   4. Altitudinal zonation of the rain forests in the Manusela National Park, Seram, Maluku, Indonesia

      • I. D. Edwards, R. W. Payton, J. Proctor, S. Riswan

      Pages 161-175

   5. The changing pattern of vertical stratification along an altitudinal gradient of the forests of Mt Pangrango, West Java

      • Isamu Yamada

      Pages 177-191

   6. Search for phytogeographic provinces in Sumatra

      • Y. Laumonier

      Pages 193-211

   7. The secondary forest of Tanah Grogot, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

      • Sukristijono Sukardjo

      Pages 213-224

   8. The fern flora of Seram

      • Masahiro Kato

      Pages 225-234

Although the only publication with a realistic claim to the title "The plant diver­ sity of Malesia" is Flora Malesiana itself, we have hesitatingly chosen this title for the present proceedings volume. Past, present and future work on the Flora Malesiana project was the subject of a successful symposium held in August 1989. This book contains only a selection of the papers presented at that meet­ ing, yet it covers a much greater diversity of themes than just the inventory of botanical diversity. It even goes beyond the boundaries of the vast Flora Malesi­ ana region in several of its chapters. The role of the founder of the Flora Malesiana Project, Professor C.G.G.J. van Steenis, repeatedly recurs in several chapters; not only as director of and contributor to the project, but also as a pioneer in the fields of Malesian vege­ tation, conservation and biogeography, and as an enlightened systematist whose ideas and practical recommendations for taxonomic delimitation still largely apply. Botanical information made available in regional and local floras is of vital im­ portance for applications such as the exploitation of natural forests on a sus­ tainable yield basis. for establishing gene banks for the benefit of agriculture. forestry and horticulture. and not in the least for nature conservation. Several chapters are devoted to these themes. Floristic studies are also at the basis of the biogeographical essays and vegetation studies included in this book.

• Flora
• Vegetation
• botanics
• botany
• development
• ecology
• evolution
• forest
• plant
• plants
• systematics
• taxonomy

This very valuable and highly recommendable compilation is well produced and strongly bound.Iawa Bulletin

• Rijksherbarium / Hortus Botanicus, Leiden University, The Netherlands

  Pieter Baas, Kees Kalkman, Rob Geesink

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