Author: Klaus Kubitzki
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: plants, genera, vascular, families, lilianae, monocotyledons, flowering, orchidaceae
Number of Pages: 478
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $559.00
ISBN-10: 3540640606
ISBN-13: 9783540640608

Volumes III and IV of this encyclopaedia provide a novel classification of the monocotyledons, a group encompassing plants of most diverse life-forms such as aquatics, terrestrial and epiphytic herbs, and tall trees. Of the 106 families now recognized 104 are treated in the two volumes, while the economically or horticulturally important grass and orchid families are relegated to two subsequent volumes. The classification followed here is based on recent molecular studies as well as on the vast body of information available on this plant group. The wealth and precision of information, but also