Anatomy of the Monocotyledons - Volume Ix: Acoraceae and Araceae

Zusatztext ... richly illustrated ... Immensely useful lists of genera ... it has taken decades to complete this volume, but the delays have been fully compensated by rich rewards ... excellent. Informationen zum Autor Richard C. KeatingResearch Associate, Missouri Botanical Garden Professor Emeritus, Southern Illinois University-EdwardsvilleFellow of the Illinois State Academy of Science, elected 1984. Biographical listings [which existed at one time and are possibly still extant]: American Men and Women of Science, Men of Achievement, Who's Who in the Midwest, Who's Who in Science and Engineering.Sigma Xi Research Honorary Society: Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville Outstanding Research Award, 1984 Klappentext This volume treats the microscopic anatomy of vegetative organs of two mono-cotyledonous flowering plant families. Highlights of the vegetative anatomical literature are reviewed from about 1000 references included in the bibliography. Zusammenfassung This volume describes and illustrates the microscopic anatomy of the "aroids", the large, economically important plant family Araceae, and also the basal monocot family Acoraceae.

Product details

• Authors: Richard C. Keating, Keating Richard C.
• Assisted by: D. F. Cutler (Editor), David Cutler (Editor), Cutler David (Editor), M. Gregory (Editor), Mary Gregory (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2003
• EAN: 9780198545354
• ISBN: 978-0-19-854535-4
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Anatomy of Monocotyledons; Anatomy of Monocotyledons
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Taxonomy, Botany & plant sciences, Taxonomy & systematics, Botany and plant sciences, Taxonomy and systematics