Flowers on the tree of life / edited by Livia Wanntorp, Louis P. Ronse De Craene.

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"Genetic and molecular studies have recently come to dominate botanical research at the expense of more traditional morphological approaches. This broad introduction to modern flower systematics demonstrates the great potential that floral morphology has to complement molecular data in phylogenetic...

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Uniform Title:Systematics Association special volume ; no. 80.
Other Authors: Wanntorp, Livia
Ronse Decraene, L. P. (Louis Philippe)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Series:Systematics Association special volume ; no. 80.
Subjects:
Flowers > Morphology.
Flowers > Evolution.
Angiosperms > Morphology.
Angiosperms > Evolution.
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Physical Description:ix, 310 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: establishing the state of the art
  • the role of morphology in plant systematics Louis Ronse De Craene and Livia Wanntorp; 2. Spatial separation and developmental divergence of male and female reproductive units in gymnosperms, and their relevance to the origin of the angiosperm flower Richard Bateman, Jason Hilton and Paula Rudall; 3. New flowers of Laurales from the Early Cretaceous (Early to Middle Albian) of eastern North America Maria von Balthazar, Peter R. Crane, Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen and Else Marie Friis; 4. Tracing the early evolutionary diversification of the angiosperm flower James A. Doyle and Peter K. Endress; 5. Changing views of flower evolution and new questions Peter K. Endress; 6. Centrifugal stamens in a modern phylogenetic context
  • was Corner right? Paula Rudall; 7. Evolution of the palm androecium as revealed by character mapping on a supertree Sophie Nadot, Julie Sannier, Anders Barfod and William J. Baker; 8. Comparative floral structure and development of Nitrariaceae (Sapindales) and systematic implications Julien B. Bachelier, Peter K. Endress and Louis P. Ronse De Craene; 9. Multiplications of floral organs in flowers
  • a case study in Conostegia (Melastomataceae, Myrtales) Livia Wanntorp, Carmen Puglisi, Darin Penneys and Louis Ronse De Craene; 10. Ontogenetic and phylogenetic diversification in Marantaceae
  • a review Alexandra C. Ley and Regine Classen-Bockhoff; 11. Floral ontogeny of Acacia celastrifolia: an enigmatic mimosoid legume with pronounced polyandry and multiple carpels Gerhard Prenner; 12. Floral development of Napoleonaea (Lecythidaceae), a deceptively complex flower Louis Ronse De Craene; Taxon index; Subject index.