Early Evolution of Flowers
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Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Language
English
Place of publication
Vienna
Austria
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Springer Wien
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Professional and scholarly
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V, 229 p.
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Height: 279 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
605 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7091-7432-6 (9783709174326)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-7091-6910-0
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Content
Introduction-Major trends in the study of early flower evolution.- Origin of the angiosperm flower: a phylogenetic perspective.- Angiosperm floral structures from the Early Cretaceous of Portugal.- Palaeobotanical evidence on the early radiation of magnoliid angiosperms.- Flowers of Turonian Magnoliidae and their implications.- Patterns of floral evolution in the early diversification of non-magnoliid dicotyledons (eudicots).- Elsemaria, a Late Cretaceous angiosperm fructification from Hokkaido, Japan.- Ontogeny of staminate and carpellate flowers of Schisandra glabra (Schisandraceae).- Floral aspects of Barclaya (Nymphaeaceae): pollination, ontogeny and structure.- Evolutionary aspects of the floral structure in Ceratophyllum.- Petal evolution in Ranunculaceae.- Flowers in Magnoliidae and the origin of flowers in other subclasses of the angiosperms. I. The relationships between flowers of Magnoliidae and Alismatidae.- Flowers in Magnoliidae and the origin of flowers in other subclasses of the angiosperms. II. The relationships between flowers of Magnoliidae, Dilleniidae, and Caryophyllidae.- Taxonomic Index.