[PDF] An Integrated System Of Classification Of Flowering Plants eBook

Author : Arthur Cronquist
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780231038805

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Author : Arthur Cronquist
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Science
ISBN :

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The spelling of family names in this edition follows the list in the 1966 edition of International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.

Author : Armen Takhtajan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 2009-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402096097

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Armen Takhtajan is among the greatest authorities in the world on the evolution of plants. This book culminates almost sixty years of the scientist's research of the origin and classification of the flowering plants. It presents a continuation of Dr. Takhtajan’s earlier publications including “Systema Magnoliophytorum” (1987), (in Russian), and “Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants” (1997), (in English). In his latest book, the author presents a concise and significantly revised system of plant classification (‘Takhtajan system’) based on the most recent studies in plant morphology, embryology, phytochemistry, cytology, molecular biology and palynology. Flowering plants are divided into two classes: class Magnoliopsida (or Dicotyledons) includes 8 subclasses, 126 orders, c. 440 families, almost 10,500 genera, and no less than 195,000 species; and class Liliopsida (or Monocotyledons) includes 4 subclasses, 31 orders, 120 families, more than 3,000 genera, and about 65,000 species.This book contains a detailed description of plant orders, and descriptive keys to plant families providing characteristic features of the families and their differences.

Author : Armen Leonovich Takhtadzhi͡an
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780231100984

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The culmination of more than fifty years of research by the foremost living expert on plant classification, Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants is an important contribution to the field of plant taxonomy. In the last decade, the system of classifying plants has been thoroughly revised. Instead of describing every individual family, Takhtajan includes descriptions in keys to families, which he calls "descriptive keys." The advantage of descriptive keys is that they give both the characteristic features of the families and their differences. The delimitation of families and orders drastically differs from the one accepted by the Englerian school and from the one accepted in Arthur Cronquist's system. Takhtajan favors the smaller, more natural families and orders, which are more coherent and better-defined, where characters are easily grasped, and which are more suitable for information retrieval and phylogenetic studies, including cladistic analysis (because it reduces polymorphic codings).

Author : Rodolphe Spichiger
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN :

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"The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM illustrating all the families described with photographs of selected species. The CD-ROM also includes the cumulative identification keys of orders and families, as well as two summary tables of all the useful plants with their use and their common names"--Pref.