Flowering Plants. Eudicots Apiales, Gentianales (except Rubiaceae)
This volume covers the orders Apiales (Asterids I) and Gentianales (except Rubiaceae; Asterids II). It is the last of five volumes to (almost) complete the treatment of the Asterids in this series after publication of Vols. VI (Cornales, Ericales, 2004),
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Flowering Plants Eudicots Apiales, Gentianales (except Rubiaceae) Joachim W. Kadereit · Volker Bittrich (Eds.)
THE FAMILIES AND GENERA OF VASCULAR PLANTS Edited by K. Kubitzki
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The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants Edited by K. Kubitzki
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Flowering Plants Eudicots Apiales, Gentianales (except Rubiaceae)
Volume Editors: Joachim W. Kadereit • Volker Bittrich
With 85 Figures
Editors Joachim W. Kadereit Johannes Gutenberg Universita¨t Mainz Mainz Germany
Volker Bittrich Campinas Brazil
Series Editor Prof. Dr. Klaus Kubitzki Universita¨t Hamburg Biozentrum Klein-Flottbek und Botanischer Garten 22609 Hamburg Germany
The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants ISBN 978-3-319-93604-8 ISBN 978-3-319-93605-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93605-5
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Preface
It is with great pleasure that I present a volume with family treatments of the orders Apiales and Gentianales (except Rubiaceae). An immense amount of evidence recently accrued had to be taken into account to present up-to-date treatments of these families, including evidence from taxonomic revisions of large groups, new comparative morphological studies, but also data from karyological and phytochemical findings and, above all, results from an increasing number of molecular systematic studies that have changed our concepts of relationships considerably. In the two large families Apiaceae and Apocynaceae, which comprise 466 and 378 genera respectively, the establish
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