A field guide to tropical plant families / Roland Keller.
Keller, Roland, 1950- author.
2022
QK936
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Title A field guide to tropical plant families / Roland Keller.
Author Keller, Roland, 1950- author.
ISBN 9783031059421 (electronic bk.)
3031059425 (electronic bk.)
9783031059414
3031059417
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05942-1
Published Cham : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-05942-1 doi
Call Number QK936
Dewey Decimal Classification 581.70913
Summary This book provides an identification system permitting recognition of plant families in all seasons by means of morphological and macroanatomical features which are easily observable, such as bark, exudates, stems and leaves characters. Studies of forest vegetation may differ in their underlying objectives, but they all require taxonomic knowledge. The process of taxonomy begins with an inventory of the flora, which has been based to a large extent on reproduction-related organs, such as flowers and fruits. But, those are often difficult to observe and may not exist in the field at a given time. Unlike most such guides or keys, this book can be used anywhere in the tropics and provides, in a straightforward two or three-step process, identification to the level of families, which are now circumscribed according to molecular as well as morphological characters in the universally accepted scheme of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. Plant architecture is not a prerequisite theme for plant identification; however, we think that an introduction to this subject is not out of place in this book (architectural traits are taxonomically sound): it is now time for botanists working in the tropics to have an idea on how the whole organism keeps growing. Within the family accounts, there is information concerning important economic plants with notes on the larger genera and, particularly helpfully, discussion of families readily confused and how to separate them. Descriptions of the families rely on short diagnosis bolstered by many photographic pictures, lines drawings and extracts from the authors field books, all showing features of plants as they are found in the forest.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Part I User manual and architectural concepts. Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. How to use this book 6
Chapter 3. Architectural concepts and key to the models
Part II. Identification keys
Chapter 4. Key to the groups of families of trees and shrubs (groups 1 to 52)
Chapter 5. Keys to families of trees and shrubs
Chapter 6. Supplementary keys
Chapter 7. Keys to the groups of families of lianas and woody epiphytic (groups 53 to 57)
Chapter 8. Keys to families of lianas and woody epiphytes
PART III. Description of the families
Chapter 9. Acanthaceae to Asteraceae
Chapter 10. Bignoniaceae to Buxaceae
Chapter 11. Cactaceae to Cycadaceae
Chapter 12. Dichapetalaceae to Dipterocarpaceae
Chapter 13. Ebenaceae to Euphorbiaceae
Chapter 14. Fagaceae
Chapter 15. Gentianaceae to Goupiaceae
Chapter 16. Hamamelidaceae to Humiriaceae
Chapter 17. Icacinaceae s.l. to Irvingiaceae
Chapter 18. Juglandaceae
Chapter 19. Lamiaceae to Lythraceae
Chapter 20. Magnoliaceae to Myrtaceae
Chapter 21. Nyctaginaceae,- Chapter 22. Ochnaceae to Oxalidaceae
Chapter 23. Pandaceae to Putranjivaceae
Chapter 24. Rhabdodendraceae to Rutaceae
Chapter 25. Sabiaceae to Symplocaceae
Chapter 26. Tetramelaceae to Torricelliaceae
Chapter 27. Ulmaceae s.l. to Urticaceae
Chapter 28. Verbenaceae to Vochysiaceae
Chapter 29. Zygophyllaceae s.l
Chapter 30. Herbaceous versus arborescent habit in the families and orders of flowering plants - evolutionary trends.

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