Plant Systematics

by Simpson

• ISBN13: 9780126444605
• ISBN10: 0126444609
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-13
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

Plant 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

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Unit I Systematics
Plant Systematics: An Overview	3	(14)
Phylogenetic Systematics	17	(34)
Unit II Evolution and Diversity of Plants
Evolution and Diversity of Green and Land Plants	51	(18)
Evolution and Diversity of Vascular Plants	69	(28)
Evolution and Diversity of Woody and Seed Plants	97	(24)
Evolution of Flowering Plants	121	(16)
Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: Amborellales, Nymphaeales, Austrobaileyales, Magnoliids, Ceratophyllales, and Monocots	137	(90)
Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: Eudicots	227	(120)
Unit III Systematic Evidence and Descriptive Terminology
Plant Morphology	347	(62)
Plant Anatomy and Physiology	409	(28)
Plant Embryology	437	(16)
Palynology	453	(12)
Plant Reproductive Biology	465	(12)
Plant Molecular Systematics	477	(18)
Unit IV Resources in Plant Systematics
Plant Identification	495	(6)
Plant Nomenclature	501	(16)
Plant Collecting and Documentation	517	(8)
Herbaria and Data Information Systems	525	(10)
Appendix 1 Plant Description	535	(6)
Appendix 2 Botanical Illustrations	541	(4)
Appendix 3 Scientific Journals in Plant Systematics	545	(2)
Glossary of Terms	547	(32)
Index	579