Flowering Plants: Evolution and Classification of Higher Categories Symposium, Hamburg, September 8–12, 1976K. Kubitzki The original suggestion to organize a symposium about the classi fication and evolution of the Flowering Plants was made at, the International Botanical Congress at Leningrad in 1975, and the idea was so well accepted by several colleagues that plans for such a symposium quickly took shape. An organizing committee consisting of Professor H. MERXMULLER, Miinchen, Professor V. H. HEYWOOD, Reading, and Professor K. KUBITZKI, Hamburg, was set up. The conference took place on 7-12 September 197tl in the Institut fiir Allgemeine Botanik of the University of Hamburg under the auspices of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy and was at tended by 80 participants from 14 countries. There have been several meetings in recent years which have dealt with the origin and evolution of the Flowering Plants so that it might be questioned whether yet another symposium dealing with more or less the same subject were really "justified. As the reader will see from the contents of the book, this symposium differed from similar ones held recently in two respects: 1. Emphasis was given to methodological aspects of the classification of higher taxa, and 2. much classificatory and evolutionary evidence relating to the higher taxa of Flowering Plants was presented. |
Contents
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Some Aspects of the Classification and Evolution | 20 |
Some Problems Associated With Character Correlations | 33 |
A H GOMES C M R GOTTLIEB O R MARX M C | 52 |
Quantitative Studies of Interrelationships Amongst | 77 |
Classification Above the Genus as Exemplified | 97 |
The Anatomy of Secondary Xylem and the Classifica | 110 |
Some Aspects of Beetle Pollination in the Evolu | 211 |
New Ideas About the Early Differentiation | 227 |
Phyllocladus and Its Bearing on the Systematics of Coni | 235 |
A Commentary on a Diagrammatic Presentation of | 252 |
The Treatment of the Monocotyledons in an Evolutionary | 285 |
Some Realignments in the Angiospermae | 299 |
Evolutionary Trends in the HamamelidalesFagales | 320 |
Urticales Their Differentiation and Systematic Position | 349 |
Ovular Morphology and the Classification of Dico | 123 |
Seed Characters in and Affinities Among the Saxi | 142 |
Transmission Electron Microscopy and Systematics | 154 |
On the Taxonomic Significance of Secondary Meta | 179 |
Cyanogenic Compounds as Systematic Markers | 191 |
New Aspects of the Systematics of Asteridae | 375 |
Summary Lecture | 396 |
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