A Field Guide to Tropical Plant Families / by Roland Keller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keller, Roland, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany.

Plant anatomy.

Biodiversity.

Plant Science.

Plant Anatomy and Morphology.

Local Subjects:

Plant Science.

Plant Anatomy and Morphology.

Biodiversity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (493 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.

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 prerequisitetheme 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 author’s field books, all showing features of plants as they are found in the forest.

Contents:

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.

Other Format:

Print version: Keller, Roland A Field Guide to Tropical Plant Families

ISBN:

9783031059421