Book ID: 1758
BOTANICAL SYSTEMATICS
An occasional series of monographs. Ed. V.H. Heywood. Volume 2: Dahlgren, Rolf M.T. and H.Trevor Clifford: The mono- cotyledons. A comparative study. 1982. 113 figs. XIV,378 p. Lex8vo. Bound.
The bases of the systematics of the monocotyledonous plants have neverbeen comprehensively surveyed. More limited groups have enjoyed thoroughtaxonomic and comparative-morphological coverage, but this treatise isthe first to present a more substantial body of data as a basis for ataxonomic and phylogenetic classification of the monocotyledon familiesinto orders and suborders, and to discuss the interrelationships of these larger groups.