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Flora Malesiana Flora Malesiana
Series I - Seed
Plants
Volume 16 - 2002
Published by the Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Universiteit Leiden branch 216 pp., illus. — ISBN 90-71236-53-6 — Paperback — Price: EUR 45.00 |
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This volume contains revisions of the families Caryophyllaceae, Cunoniaceae, and the sea-grass families Potamogetonaceae, Zosteraceae and Cymodoceaceae.
The introductory chapters of the families treated in this volume also include contributions on pollen morphology (R.W.J.M. van der Ham: Caryophyllaceae, Sea-grasses and J. Muller†/R.W. Barnes: Cunoniaceae), wood anatomy (P. Baas: Cunoniaceae), phytochemistry (R. Hegnauer: Cunoniaceae, Sea-grasses), palaeobotany and leaf morphology (R.W. Barnes: Cunoniaceae).
Caryophyllaceae (pp. 1–51) is a widespread family of about 85 genera with more than 2000 species. Here, 16 Malesian genera are treated: Arenaria, Cerastium, Dianthus, Drymaria, Gypsophila, Lychnis, Myosoton, Polycarpaea, Polycarpon, Sagina, Saponaria, Scleranthus, Silene, Spergula, Stellaria, and Vaccaria, in total 45 species, of which many cultivated or introduced.
Cunoniaceae (pp. 53–165) comprises 26 genera of which 10 Malesian: Acsmithia, Aistopetalum, Ceratopetalum, Gillbeea, Opocunonia, Pullea, Schizomeria, Spiraeanthemum, Spiraeopsis, and Weinmannia, with in total 43 species revised here. The introductory chapters (33 pp.) also contain an extensive section on general morphology. Illustrations consist of line drawings, photographs, and distribution maps.
Potamogetonaceae, Zosteraceae, and Cymodoceaceae (pp. 167–216) are treated here together, with a general introduction and a key to the sea-grass genera. — Potamogetonaceae comprises 3 genera (80 spp.), of which here the Malesian genera Potamogeton (13 sp.) and Ruppia (1 sp.) have been revised. — Zosteraceae consists of 3 genera (17 spp.), of which here the only Malesian genus, Zostera (1 sp.), has been treated. — Cymodoceaceae comprises 4 genera (14 spp.), of which the Malesian genera Cymodocea, Halodule, and Syringodium, in all 5 species, have been revised.
In all family treatments, keys to genera and species have been included. An Index to scientific plant names (accepted names and synonyms) has been given at the end of the volume.
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