Overview
- Richly illustrated
- Takes the most recent systematic findings into account
- An indispensable source of information for anybody in the field of pure and applied plant sciences
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants (FAMILIES GENERA, volume 11)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This volume presents systematic treatments for the families and genera of the Malpighiales, which more recently have been recognised as a new major group of the eudicots. Apart from several herbaceous lineages (already treated in Vol. IX of this series), the order consists mainly of rainforest trees, particularly those of the understorey. Accompanied by other early eudicot lineages, this reflects the well-documented origin of the group as invaders into the conifer-, cycad- and seed fern-dominated forests of the Cretaceous which, at that time, were transformed into the tropical rainforest biome. In this volume, 24 families with 429 genera comprising over 12,000 species are treated. Many of these belong to the vast family of the Euphorbiaceae (here conceived in a broader sense), followed by the Violaceae, whereas some of the remaining families are very small and even relictual. The revised classification includes a complete inventory of the genera belonging to the families treated in this volume, along with their diagnostic features and keys for their identification. References to the latest taxonomic literature and links to many different disciplines important to modern plant systematics make the volume a valuable source of information on the manifold aspects of plant diversity.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Flowering Plants. Eudicots
Book Subtitle: Malpighiales
Editors: Klaus Kubitzki
Series Title: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39417-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-39416-4Published: 17 December 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-39417-1Published: 27 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2730-6259
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6267
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 331
Number of Illustrations: 74 b/w illustrations
Topics: Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Biodiversity