Flowering Plants. Monocotyledons: Lilianae (except Orchidaceae)Klaus Kubitzki When Rolf Dahlgren and I embarked on preparing this book series, Rolf took prime responsibility for monocotyledons, which had interested him for a long time. After finishing his comparative study and family classification of the mono cots, he devoted much energy to the acquisition and editing of family treatments for the present series. After his untimely death, Peter Goldblatt, who had worked with him, continued to handle further incoming monocot manuscripts until, in the early 1990s, his other obligations no longer allowed him to continue. At that time, some 30 manuscripts in various states of perfection had accumulated, which seemed to form a solid basis for a speedy completion of the FGVP monocots; with the exception of the grasses and orchids which would appear in separate volumes. I felt a strong obligation to do everything to help in publishing the manuscripts that had been put into our hands. I finally decided to take charge of them personally, although during my life as a botanist I had never seriously been interested in mono cots. |
Contents
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Epicuticular Wax Ultrastructure | 20 |
Hemerocallidaceae | 28 |
Floral Biology S VOGEL | 34 |
Conspectus of Families Treated in This Volume | 49 |
J G CONRAN | 75 |
A W MEEROw and D A SNIJMAN | 83 |
J G CONRAN and P J RUDALL | 111 |
J G CONRAN and M N TAMURA | 186 |
P Goldblatt with J C MANNING and P RUDALL | 295 |
H T CLIFFORD and J G CONRAN | 336 |
Lomandraceae | 354 |
J G CONRAN | 361 |
Melanthiaceae | 369 |
Nartheciaceae | 375 |
Pandanaceae | 397 |
K KUBITZKI and P J RUDALL | 125 |
Asteliaceae | 141 |
Blandfordiaceae | 148 |
Burmanniaceae | 154 |
Calochortaceae | 160 |
N TAMURA | 164 |
Colchicaceae | 167 |
K KUBITZKI | 173 |
Pentastemonaceae | 404 |
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452 | |
Velloziaceae | 459 |
Xanthorrhoeaceae | 467 |
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3-lobed actinomorphic Africa Agavaceae Agave Allium Amaryllidaceae anatomy Anthericaceae anthers apically Asparagales Australia axile basal base basifixed bracts bulb bundles capsule carpels cells Chase chromosome number connate Conran corm cotyledon Cyclanthaceae cylindric Dahlgren dehiscing Dioscorea dorsifixed elongated EMBRYOLOGY endosperm epidermis erect exine fibrous filaments filiform fleshy floral foliage leaves fruit fused genera genus glabrous globose Goldblatt herbs Huber inflorescence inner tepals introrse Iridaceae lacking lanceolate leaf Liliaceae Liliales linear lobes locule loculicidal Meerow monocots monocotyledons nectaries outer ovary ovoid ovules pedicels perennials perianth perigone petiolate phytomelan pistillate plants pollen pollen grains POLLEN MORPHOLOGY Prosartes raceme raphides rarely rbcL rhizome roots Rudall Scape Scoliopus sect seeds septal nectaries sessile sheathing short sometimes spathe bracts species stamens stem stigma stomata style branches Takhtajan taxa tepals tepals free terete testa thickened Thismia Tricyrtis tube tubers usually vascular VEGETATIVE whorls yellow Yucca zygomorphic