Judd, Walter S.,

Plant systematics : a phylogenetic approach / Walter S. Judd, University of Florida, Christopher S. Campbell, University of Maine, El izabeth A. Kellogg, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Pe ter F. Stevens, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri Botanical G arden, Michael J. Donoghue, Yale University. - 4th ed. - xvi, 677 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 c m

Includes index.

The science of plant systematics -- Methods and principles of biolog ical systematics -- Classification and system in flowering plants: hist orical background -- Taxonomic evidence: structural and biochemical cha racters -- The evolution of plant diversity -- An overview of green pla nt phylogeny -- Lycophytes, ferns, and gymnosperms -- Phylogenetic rela tionships of angiosperms.

9781605353890 (casebound)


Plants-- Classification.-- Classification.

580.1/2