Overview
- A complete and updated inventory of all families and genera of the monocotyledons (except orchids and grasses, which will be treated in separate volumes)
- The first since Engler and Prantl's treatment of all monocotyledon families in "Natürliche Pflanzenfamilien" (first edition 1889-1915)
Part of the book series: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants (FAMILIES GENERA, volume 4)
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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 monocots, 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 botainst I had never seriously been interested in monocots.
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Table of contents (50 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Flowering Plants. Monocotyledons
Book Subtitle: Alismatanae and Commelinanae (except Gramineae)
Editors: Klaus Kubitzki
Series Title: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03531-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-64061-5Published: 27 August 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08378-5Published: 01 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-03531-3Published: 17 April 2013
Series ISSN: 2730-6259
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6267
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 511
Topics: Plant Sciences