This book provides a comprehensive monograph of the family Humiraceae. It includes information on economic botany, conservation, phylogenetic relationships, taxonomic history, ecology, cytology, anatomy, and phytochemistry, among other topics. This volume is illustrated with line drawings, black and white photographs, and distribution maps. It was written by the world-leading authority on this plant group and contains a total of eight genera, 65 species, and 15 infraspecific taxa, with two new species described. This work is volume 123 in the Flora Neotropica book series (Lawrence M. Kelly, Editor-in-Chief). Flora Neotropica volumes provide taxonomic treatments of plant groups or families growing in the Americas between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
Author(s): Ghillean T. Prance
Series: Flora Neotropica, 123
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 242
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Abstract
Resumo
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Taxonomic History of Humiriaceae
Chapter 3: Relationships and Phylogeny
Chapter 4: Fossils
Chapter 5: Wood Anatomy
Chapter 6: Pollen
Chapter 7: Chemistry
Chapter 8: Chromosomes
Chapter 9: Morphology of Humiriaceae
9.1 Habit
9.2 Leaves
9.3 Vestiture
9.4 Inflorescence
9.5 Calyx
9.6 Corolla
9.7 Stamens
9.8 Disc
9.9 Gynoecium
9.10 Fruit
9.11 Seeds
Chapter 10: Systematic Treatment of Humiriaceae
10.1 Duckesia
10.2 Endopleura
10.3 Hylocarpa
10.4 Humiria
10.5 Humiriastrum
10.6 Sacoglottis
10.7 Schistostemon
10.8 Vantanea
Numerical List of Taxa
List of Exsiccatae
References
Index of Local Names
Index of Scientific names
New names are in boldface and synonyms are in italics. Page numbers in boldface indicate primary page reference. Page numbers with an asterisk (*) indicate pages with illustrations or maps. New lectotypifications are indicate
