Flowering Plant Origin, Evolution & Phylogeny

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: The Challenge of Flowering Plant History

   • David Winship Taylor, Leo J. Hickey

   Pages 1-7

3. A Survey of Reticulate Venation Among Fossil and Living Land Plants

   • Mary Louise Trivett, Kathleen B. Pigg

   Pages 8-31

4. A New Gnetophyte from the Late Carnian (Late Triassic) of Texas and its Bearing on the Origin of the Angiosperm Carpel and Stamen

   • Bruce Cornet

   Pages 32-67

5. Wood Anatomy of Primitive Angiosperms: New Perspectives and Syntheses

   • Sherwin Carlquist

   Pages 68-90

6. Evidence for the Earliest Stage of Angiosperm Pollen Evolution: A Paleoequatorial Section from Israel

   • Gilbert J. Brenner

   Pages 91-115

7. The Origin and Evolution of the Angiosperm Carpel

   • David Winship Taylor, Gretchen Kirchner

   Pages 116-140

8. Floral Structure, Development, and Relationships of Paleoherbs: Saruma, Cabomba, Lactoris, and Selected Piperales

   • Shirley C. Tucker, Andrew W. Douglas

   Pages 141-175

9. Origin of the Angiosperm Flower

   • Leo J. Hickey, David Winship Taylor

   Pages 176-231

10. Evidence for and Implications of an Herbaceous Origin for Angiosperms

    • David Winship Taylor, Leo J. Hickey

    Pages 232-266

11. Comparison of Alternative Hypotheses for the Origin of the Angiosperms

    • Henry Loconte

    Pages 267-285

12. The Least Specialized Angiosperms

    • Robert F. Thorne

    Pages 286-313

13. Molecular Phylogenies and the Diversification of the Angiosperms

    • Kenneth J. Sytsma, David A. Baum

    Pages 314-340

14. Back Matter

    Pages 341-403

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Contributors ix Chapter Introduction: The Challenge of Flowering Plant History David Winship Taylor and Leo J. Hickey Chapter 2. A Survey of Reticulate Venation Among Fossil and Living Land Plants Mary Louise Trivett and Kathleen B. Pigg Chapter 3. A New Gnetophyte from the Late Carnian (Late Triassic) of Texas and its Bearing on the Origin of the Angiosperm Carpel and Stamen 32 Bruce Cornet Chapter 4. Wood Anatomy of Primitive Angiosperms: New Perspectives and Syntheses 68 Sherwin Carlquist Chapter 5. Evidence for the Earliest Stage of ~giosperm Pollen Evolution: A Paleoequatodal Section from Israel 91 Gilbert J. Brenner Chapter 6. The Origin and Evolution of the Angiosperm Carpel 116 David Winship Taylor and Gretchen Kirchner Chapter Floral Structure, Development, and Relationships of Paleoherbs: Saruma, Cabomba, Lactoris, and Selected Piperales 141 Shirley Tucker and Andrew Douglas Chapter 8. Origin of the Angiosperm Flower 176 Leo J. Hickey and David Winship Taylor Chapter Evidencefor and Implications of an Herbaceous Origin for Angiosperms 232 David Winship Taylor and Leo Z Hickey Chapter Comparison of Alternative Hypotheses for the Origin of the Angiosperms 267 Henry Loconte 10. 9. W. C. 7. 1. CONTENTS vi Contents Chapter The Least Specialized Angiosperms 286 Robert F. Thorne Chapter Molecular Phylogenies and the Diversification of the Angiosperms 314 Kenneth J. Sytsma and David A. Baum 341 References Appendix. Stratigraphic Time Scale 387 Index 12. 11.

• Flora
• Piperales
• Polle
• botanical research
• development
• evolution
• phylogeny
• plant
• synthesis
• the origin
• wood
• wood anatomy

This book should be read by anyone interested in angiosperm origins. - Plant Science Bulletin; ...this is still one of the most comprehensive reviews of the subject to date. - Plant Science Bulletin; ...the cover of this volume does little to tell the reader of the varied and significant research results that are included in the pages of this book. Flowering plant origins, phylogenies and evolution is a complex but interesting field of study. The authors have done a fine job of showing this to be true. - Am. Assn. of Stratigraphic Palynologists

• Department of Biology, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany

  David Winship Taylor

• Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, USA, USA

  Leo J. Hickey

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