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This book entitled Pteridology in the New Millennium is dedicated to Professor B.K. Nayar, founder of the pteridology laboratory of the National Botanical Research India, Lucknow, India, on the eve of the Golden Jubilee Year October 2002 to October 2003 of the NBRI, a national laboratory under CSIR, New Delhi. This volume is a collection of research papers on pteridology covering a wide spectrum of various aspects of pteridological research from prominent scientists throughout the world. In editing this volume we have made an attempt to highlight the current significance of some of the emerging fields of pteridological research in various communities across the globe. The book includes thirty-five chapters mainly covering topics on systematics, morphology, anatomy and cytology, ecology and floristics, phytoremediation and economic utility, reproductive biology, tissue culture and Paleobotany.

List of Contributors

xiii

Foreword

xxi

Editors' Note

xxiii

Preface I

xxv

Preface II

xxvii

Preface III

xxix

Preface IV

xxxi

GENERAL PAPERS

1 Professor Bala Krishnan Nayar: A biographical sketch

1

(10)

Subhash Chandra

2 The Pteridology Laboratory, N.B.R.1., Lucknow (India)

11

(4)

Mrittunjai Srivastava

SYSTEMATICS

3 Taxonomy and biogeography of Indian pteridophytes

15

(10)

Gopinath Panigrahi

4 Phylogenetics, biogeograpgy and classification of the woodwardioid ferns (Blechnaceae)

25

(24)

Raymond Cranfill and Masahiro Kato

5 Review of the family Woodsiaceae (Diels) Herter of Eurasia

49

(16)

Alexandr Ivanovich Shmakov

6 An Introduction to the pteridophytes of Hainan Island, South China

65

(8)

Xian-Chun Zhang

7 Notes on new or interesting Aspleuium species from Western Asia, including comments on Ching & Wu(1985), and Fraser-Jenkins (1992) Reliquiae Reichsteinianae 1

73

(34)

Ronald Louis Leo Viane and Tadeus Reichstein

8 Diversity and distribution patterns of Aspleniaceae in Brazil

107

(14)

Lana da Silva Sylvestre and Paulo Günter Windisch

9 Two new species of Cyathea from North-Eastern India

121

(12)

Tanoy Bandyopadhyay, Tuhinsri Sen, and Uday Sen

10 Distributional study of the genus Cyrtomium C. Presl (Dryopteridaceae)

133

(10)

Jin Mei-Lu and Xiao Cheng

11 Taxonomic studies on the family Sinopteridaceae and the genus Cteuitopsis (Tectariaceae) from Hainan Island, China

143

(10)

Gang-Min Zhang, Shi-Yong Dong, Xian-Chun Zhang, and Shu-Gang Lu

12 Valuable and noteworthy Chinese fern specimens preserved at the herbarium of Singapore Botanic Gardens (SING)

153

(12)

Su Gong Wu and Benito Ching Tan

13 Pteridophytic flora of Northern part of Bihar (India) adjacent to Indo-Nepal border

165

(12)

Alka Kumari and Ranjit Bahadur Srivastava

MORPHOLOGY, ANATOMY AND CYTOLOGY

14 Studies on the Chinese Selagiuellaceae-V: Observations on the forliar epidermis of Selaginella Beauv. from Hainan Island in China

177

(8)

Ping Yang and Xiang-Chung Zhang

15 Morphological observations on the co-occurring geophytes Isoetes duriei Bory (Lycophyta, Isoetaceae) and Romulea columnae Sebast. et Mauri (Anthophyta, Iridaceae)

185

(6)

Angelo Troia, Elisabetta Oddo, and Enrico Bellini

16 Cytomorphological studies on some Indian population of Isoëtes coromaudelina L. f.

191

(14)

Gopal Krishna Srivastava, Meena Rai, and Mrittunjai Srivastava

17 Studies on the morpho-taxonomy of Indian vittarioid ferns

205

(12)

Jnan Bikas Bhandari and Radhanath Mukhopadhyay

18 Morphological and cytological variations of Japanese Dryopteris varia group (Dryopteridaceae)

217

(16)

Su-Juan Lin, Masahiro Kato, and Kunio Iwatsuki

ECOLOGY AND FLORISTICS

19 Environmentally related demography: field studies on Isoëtes lacustris L. (Lycophyta, Isoëtaceae) in Europe

233

(28)

Margrit Vöge

20 The vertical distributions of live and dead fern spores in the soil of a semi-natural woodland in Southeast Scotland and their implications for spore movement in the formation of soil spore banks

261

(22)

Luciano Maurico Esteves and Adrian Francis Dyer

21 Species richness of pteridophytes in natural versus man-made lowland forest in Malaysia and Singapore

283

(16)

Farida Binti Yusuf, Benito Ching Tan, and Ian Mark Turner

22 The taxonomy and ecology of the pteridophytes of Mt. Iraya and vicinity, Batan Island, Batanes Province, Northern Philippines

299

(28)

Julie Fenete Barcelona

23 Some aspects of the fern flora (Filicopsida) of the Netherlands

327

(14)

Piet Bremer

24 Demographic studies of homosporous fern populations in South Siberia

341

(24)

Irina Ivanovna Gureyeva

25 Eco-morphological characteristics of Pyrrosia petiolosa (Christ et Baroni) Ching (Polypodiaceae) in the primorye territory, in far-Eastern Russia

365

(10)

Nina Mihailovna Derzhavina

26 Herbivory on three tropical fern species of a Mexican cloud forest

375

(8)

Klaus Mehltreter and Javier Tolome

27 Animal interaction with pteridophytes with emphasis on Indian records

383

(14)

Subir Bera, Biplab Patra, and Narayan Ghorai

PHYTOREMEDIATION / ECONOMIC UTILITY

28 Tolerance of heavy metals in vascular plants: Arsenic hyperaccumulation by Chinese brake fern (Pteris vittata L.)

397

(24)

Bhaskar Rao Bondada and Lena Qiying Ma

29 Economically viable pteridophytes of India

421

(26)

Har Bhajan Singh

REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY/TISSUE CULTURE

30 Gametophyte morphology and breeding systems in ferns

447

(8)

Donald Ray Farrar

31 Some aspects of reproductive biology of the gametophyte generation of homosporous ferns

455

(30)

Satish Chander Verma

32 Mating systems of Cyatheaceae native to Taiwan

485

(6)

Wen-Liang Chiou, Yao-Moan Huang and Pei-Hsuan Lee

33 Plantlet production of the Philippine Giant Staghorn Fern [Platycerium grande (Fee) C. Presl] through spore culture

491

(6)

Cecilia Beltran Amoroso and Victor Bucad Amoroso

34 Micropropagation and conservation of rare and endangered ferns of the southern Western Ghats through in vitro culture

497

(8)

Visuvasam Soosai Manickam, Sambantham Vallinayagam, and Marimuthu Johnson

PALEOBOTANY

35 Heterosporous water ferns from the late Cretaceous to Neogene periods of India

505

Bharati Nandi and Saibal Chattopadhyay

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