Overview
- Offers full taxonomic coverage of this group of succulents
- Includes numerous brilliant, color-photos throughout
- Provides expert analysis useful to botanists, plant taxonomists and scholars as well as to herbaria and botanic gardens
Part of the book series: Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants (SUCCPLANTS)
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Table of contents (110 entries)
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Front Matter
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The Family Agavaceae
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The Family Amaryllidaceae
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The Family Anthericaceae
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About this book
This second edition provides a comprehensive list of the latest taxonomy including the updated relevant plant data. All succulent species of the monocotyledonous plant families and genera are described in detail.
This work will be particularly useful to botanists, plant taxonomists and scholars as well as to herbaria and botanic gardens. It will also appeal to the committed collector of succulent plants, horticultural cognoscenti and succulent plant lovers.
Reviews
“… hier handelt es sich um ein eigentlich unentbehrliches Standardwerk für Botaniker, fortgeschrittene Sukkulentenfreunde und Fachbibliotheken ...” (Detlev Metzing, in: Kakteen und andere Sukkulenten, Jg. 71, Heft 5, Mai. 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Reto Nyffeler studied biology at the University of Zürich. In 1997 he received a doctor’s degree with a Ph.D. thesis on the systematics of the tribe Notocacteae (Cactaceae) from South America. Subsequently, he spent 4 years as a postdoctoral student at Harvard University and Stanford University and conducted during that stay the first comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study of Cactaceae. Since 2002 he is curator for the vascular plant collections at the United Herbaria of the University and ETH Zurich, and he is a lecturer for plant systematics at the Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich. His research focuses on the systematics of succulent plants and on the history of botany. During the past two decades he published several papers on succulents from different plant families in collaboration with Dr. Urs Eggli.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Monocotyledons
Editors: Urs Eggli, Reto Nyffeler
Series Title: Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56486-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-56484-4Published: 13 March 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-56486-8Published: 12 March 2020
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 1462
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 325 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Plant Physiology