Flowering Plants. Eudicots

This volume covers the orders Boraginales, Garryales and Solanales (except Convolvulaceae) of the Lamiids (Asterids I) as well as three unplaced families of that clade, i.e. Vahliaceae, Icacinaceae and Metteniusaceae, and the orders Aquifoliales, Escalloniales, Bruniales, Dipsacales and Paracryphiales of the Campanulids (Asterids II). It is the first of two final volumes to (almost) complete the treatment of the Asterids, which started with Vol. VI (Cornales, Ericales, 2004) and continued with Vol. VII (Lamiales, 2004) and Vol. VIII (Asterales, 2007). The present volume provides descriptions for 35 families and altogether 340 genera, including three genera of somewhat uncertain family affiliation. It provides identification keys for families within orders and for all genera within families, and also discusses probable phylogenetic relationships. The wealth of information contained in this volume makes it an indispensable source for all those working in pure and applied plant sciences.

Richly illustrated throughout Takes the most recent systematic findings into account An indispensable source of information for anybody in the field of pure and applied plant sciences

Autorentext

Joachim W. Kadereit
Institut für Spezielle Botanik und Botanischer Garten, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany

Volker Bittrich
Campinas, Brazil

Inhalt
Introduction to the orders and families of uncertain position of this volume.- Adoxaceae.- Aquifoliaceae .- Aucubaceae.- Boraginaceae.- Bruniaceae.- Caprifoliaceae (with Zabelia incert. sed.).- Cardiopteridaceae.- Codonaceae.- Columellaceae.- Dipsacaceae.- Ehretiaceae.- Eremosynaceae.- Escalloniaceae.- Eucommiaceae.- Garryaceae.- Heliotropiaceae.- Helwingiaceae.- Hydroleaceae.- Hydrophyllaceae.- Icacinaceae.- Lennoaceae.- Metteniusaceae.- Montiniaceae.- Morinaceae.- Paracryphiaceae.- Phyllonomaceae.- Polyosmaceae.- Solanaceae.- Sphenocleaceae.- Sphenostemonaceae.- Stemonuraceae.- Tribelaceae.- Vahliaceae.- Valerianaceae.- Wellstediaceae.