Diversity and Evolutionary Biology of Tropical Flowers (Paperback)

From the Publisher: 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 idiosyncrasies and evolutionary features. The author also outlines new trends in the study of floral evolution and the role of flowers in the study of flowering plant phylogeny.This volume concentrates on tropical flowers in which, whilst sharing many of the features seen in temperate flowers, exhibit phenomena which are purely tropical. First it deals with general structural and biological features of flowers and shows facets of their diversity. Next, it focuses on the flowers of selected tropical plants and emphasizes their structural and biological idiosyncrasies and evolutionary features.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 idiosyncrasies and evolutionary features. The author also outlines new trends in the study of floral evolution and the role of flowers in the study of flowering plant phylogeny.