Diversity and Evolutionary Biology of Tropical Flowers

by Peter K. Endress

Overview

The first part of the volume deals with general structural and biological features of flowers and shows facets of their diversity. The second part focuses on the flowers of selected tropical plants and emphasizes their structural and biological idiosyncrasies and evolutionary features. The author also outlines new trends in the study of floral evolution and the role of flowers in the study of flowering plant phylogeny.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521565103
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/25/1996
Series:	Cambridge Tropical Biology Series
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Floral organisation (bauplan, groundplan); 3. Floral construction (architecture, gestalt); 4. Floral adaptations to different pollinators (floral styles); 5. Special differentiations associated with pollinator attraction; 6. Special differentiations associated with the breeding system; 7. The process of anthesis; 8. Floral structure: biology of selected systematic groups in the tropics; 9. Aspects of flower evolution; 10. Prospects; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...provides a wealth of information that will prove to be of great value to all persons interested in plant systematics, phylogeny, structure-function relationships, and ecology...will undoubtedly prove to be an indispensable and widely cited reference work for all professional botanists well into the future." William C. Dickison, Taxon

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