Cambridge Tropical Biology: Diversity and Evolutionary Biology of Tropical Flowers (Paperback)

Peter K Endress; Endress Peter K; Peter S Ashton
Cambridge University Press
 9780521565103
0-521-56510-3

The study of flowers provides a unique insight into the biology and evolution of flowering plants as a whole. The comparative study of flowers began in temperate regions and as a consequence most books.

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on flowers are concerned with temperate plants. In contrast, this volume concentrates on tropical flowers, which, in contrast to temperate flowers, exhibit the full range of biological phenomena that occurs in flowers. The first part of the volume deals with general structural and biological features of flowers and shows facets of their diversity. The second part focuses on the flowers of selected tropical plants and emphasizes their structural and biological idiosyncracies and evolutionary features. New trends in the study of floral evolution and the role of flowers in the study of flowering plant phylogeny are also outlined.